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Individuality and modernity in Berlin : self and society from Weimar to the Wall /
"Moritz Föllmer traces the history of individuality in Berlin from the late 1920s to the construction of the Berlin Wall in August 1961. The demand to be recognized as an individual was central to metropolitan society, as were the spectres of risk, isolation and loss of agency. This was true u...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Colección: | New studies in European history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Part I. Weimar Berlin
- Risk, isolation and unstable selfhood
- Flexibility, authenticity and consumption
- Reform, scandal and extremism
- Part II. Nazi Berlin
- Redefining legitimate individuality
- Jewish Berliners' ambiguous quest for agency
- Heroism, withdrawal and privatist loyalty
- Part III. Post-War and Cold-War Berlin
- Defeat, self-help and the dissociation from Nazism
- Socialist ambitions and individualist expectations
- Anti-totalitarianism, domesticity and ambivalent modernity
- Conclusion.