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The Emotional Politics of the Alternative Left
Presents a fascinating account of the emotional politics and practices in the West German alternative left.
Marriage Discourses
Marriage was historically not only a romantic ideal, but a tool of exploitation of women in many regards. Women were often considered commodities and marriage was far away from the romantic stereotypes people relate to it today. While marriages served as diplomatic tools or means of political legitimization in the past, the discourses about marital relationships changed and women expressed their demands more openly. Discourses about marriage in history and literature naturally became more and more heated, especially during the "long" 19th century, when marriages were contested by social reformers or political radicals, male and female alike. The present volume provides a discussion of the role of marriage and the discourses about in different chronological and geographical contexts and shows which arguments played an important role for the demand for more equality in martial relationships. It focuses on marriage discourses, may they have been legal or rather socio-political ones. In addition, the disputes about marriage in literary works of the 19th and 20th centuries are presented to complement the historical debates.
Brahms in the Priesthood of Art
Brahms in the Priesthood of Art: Gender and Art Religion in the Nineteenth-Century German Musical Imagination explores the intersection of gender, art religion (Kunstreligion) and other aesthetic currents in Brahms reception of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In particular, it focuses on the theme of the self-sacrificing musician devoted to his art, or "priest of music," with its quasi-mystical and German Romantic implications of purity seemingly at odds with the lived reality of Brahms's bourgeois existence. While such German Romantic notions of art religion informed the thinking on musical purity and performance, after the failed socio-political revolutions of 1848/49, and in...
Peter von Zahn's Cold War Broadcasts to West Germany
This book examines the pioneering radio broadcasts and television documentaries about the United States made in the 1950s by the influential West German journalist Peter von Zahn. Part intellectual biography, part analysis of significant debates in West Germany, part study of an intensive encounter with the United States, the book helps explain the transformation of postwar West Germany. As a soldier in the Wehrmacht in World War II, Zahn held the militantly elitist views typical of young men in Germany’s educated middle class. He reconsidered these positions in his postwar broadcasts. At the same time he coldly assessed the capacity of the United States to win the Cold War. His broadcasts examined McCarthyism, the African-American civil rights movement, and numerous aspects of American culture and politics. Zahn’s broadcasts were one important voice in West German debates about the defects and virtues of modern democratic societies and especially of the United States, debates whose intensity reflected recent German experiences with the failure of the Weimar Republic and with Nazism. Zahn’s analyses of the United States remain startlingly relevant today.
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Antikatholizismus
English summary: This book compares anti-Catholicism in Germany and Italy in the long 19th century. It analyzes anti-Catholic discourse, anticlerical media and the genealogy of the secularisation theory in the age of the European Culture Wars. German text. German description: Der Monch als Ungeziefer, der Priester als Triebtater das sind nur zwei Bilder mit denen die fortschrittlichen Krafte, u.a. Liberale und Demokraten, gegen den Katholizismus zu Feld zogen. Der moderne Antikatholizismus war bereits in der Aufklarung entstanden und entwickelte sich in der Folge zu einem europaischen Konflikt um den Ort und die Bedeutung von Religion und Kirche. Manuel Borutta erhellt im Rahmen eines Vergleichs zwischen Deutschland und Italien den Zusammenhang zwischen Antikatholizismus, Kulturkampf und Sakularisierungstheorie. Er zeigt, wie sich der Antikatholizismus vor 1800 mit Projekten der Moderne und der burgerlichen Gesellschaft verband, sich im 19. Jahrhundert medial ausbreitete, Kulturkampfe ausloste und nach 1900 in die Selbstbeschreibung der westlichen Moderne einging.
Demokratie im Schatten der Gewalt
Die Geschichte Europas im 20. Jahrhundert bewegt sich zwischen zwei Extremen: Auf der einen Seite der Absturz im Krieg und Völkermord, auf der anderen die Rückkehr zu Frieden und Demokratie. Die Forschung hat sich bisland vorwiegend mit dem Weg der Deutschen in den Nationalsozialismus hinein beschäftigt und wenig damit, wie sie aus dieser Gewaltgeschichte wieder herausgefunden haben. Wie verlief im Schatten der Teilhabe an Vernichtungskrieg und Völkermord die private Suche der Deutschen nach der Demokratie als Lebensform? Worin unterscheiden sich literarische und historiographische Perspektiven auf den deutschen Nachkrieg?
