Introduction: Nationalism before the nation state / Dagmar Paulus and Ellen Pilsworth -- Johann Joachim Spalding's 1778 Kriegs-Gebeth : church prayers (Kirchengebete), war prayers (Kriegsgebete), and the patriotic and national discourse in late eighteenth-century Germany / Johan…
The Cognition of Life and the Life of Cognition (Kant) -- Metamorphoses of Form (Goethe) -- Enter the Hybrid (Kleist) -- Life as Will (Nietzsche) -- Brains (Benn) -- The Infinite Specificity of Life (Musil). "Forms of Life brings the works of Kant, Goethe, Kleist, Nietzsche, Fr…
Zusammenfassung: "A narrative of German literary history in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Examines the intersection of literary and national imagination through the lens of Germany's emerging global networks and how they were rendered in two very different …
Zusammenfassung: The idea that nothing happens by chance in history, that nothing is quite what it seems to be at first sight, that everything is the result of the secret machinations of malign groups of people manipulating everything from behind the scenes - these notions are a…
Two centuries ago, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published the first volume of Children's and Household Tales. Now Philip Pullman, one of the most accomplished authors of our time, makes us fall in love all over again with the immortal tales of the Brothers Grimm. "Two centuries ago,…
Examining novels, critical editions, gift books, translations, and illustrated books, as well as the communities who made them, Dreaming in Books tells a wide-ranging story of the book's identity at the turn of the nineteenth century. In so doing, it shows how many of the most p…
"This volume contains 13 original essays exploring Rammstein's stage performance and recorded works from multiple academic perspectives. The panoramic view of approaches to Rammstein's music and performance goes beneath the surface and provides fan and scholar alike with a deepe…
"'A truly revolutionary idea ... Clear, tight, disciplined, beautifully structured, and brilliantly reasoned.'--Ayn Rand. Self-sacrifice, oriental mysticism, racial 'truth, ' the public good, doing one's duty -- these are among the seductive catchphrases that circulated in pre-N…
"While Adolf Hitler's National Socialist government was persecuting Jews and Jehovah's Witnesses and driving forty-two small German religious sects underground, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints continued to practice unhindered. How some fourteen thousand Mormons n…
Zusammenfassung: "In Drunk on Genocide, Edward B. Westermann reveals how, over the course of the Third Reich, scenes involving alcohol consumption and revelry among the SS and police became a routine part of rituals of humiliation in the camps, ghettos, and killing fields of Eas…
Zusammenfassung: "While many previous portraits have speculated about Hitler's formative years, Peter Longerich focuses on his central role as the driving force of Nazism itself. You cannot separate the man from the monstrous movement he came to embody. From his ascendance throu…
Klappentext: "Anti-Heimat Cinema: The Jewish Invention of the German Landscape" studies an overlooked yet fundamental element of German popular culture in the twentieth century. In tracing Jewish filmmakers' contemplations of "Heimat"-a provincial German landscape associated wit…
The first English-language survey of art photographers working within the NationalSocialist state, Photography in the Third Reich explores the creation and use of photography as an ideological tool in Nazi Germany. Focusing on a select group of voelkisch photographers who contin…
Zusammenfassung: "Intellectual property law is based on a specific notion of reality. According to this understanding, there exist immaterial objects which are exclusively assigned to a rights holder.1 Unlike corporeal objects ('things'),2 these immaterial objects cannot be touc…
