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  • The Barbarian Invasions

    A Genealogy of the History of Art

    by Eric Michaud ...
    Series series October Books
    How the history of art begins with the myth of the barbarian invasion—the romantic fragmentation of classical eternity.The history of art, argues Éric Michaud, begins with the romantic myth of the barbarian invasions. Viewed from the nineteenth century, the Germanic-led invasions of the Roman Empire in the fifth century became the gateway to modernity, seen not as a catastrophe but as a release ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Traces of Modernism

    Art and Politics from the First World War to Totalitarianism

    Die Krise der Moderne und der auf sie antwortende Modernismus markieren den Übergang vom 19. zum 20. Jahrhundert. Im Ersten Weltkrieg und den sich an ihn anschließenden Revolutionen manifestierten sie sich auf dramatische Weise. Dieses Buch geht den Beziehungen zwischen den neuen sozialen und politischen Entwürfen dieser Zeit - Planungsdenken, Neuer Mensch, totaler Staat - und den künstlerisch ... Read more

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  • Marxism, Fascism, and Totalitarianism

    Chapters in the Intellectual History of Radicalism

    This work traces the changes in classical Marxism (the Marxism of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels) that took place after the death of its founders. It outlines the variants that appeared around the turn of the twentieth century—one of which was to be of influence among the followers of Adolf Hitler, another of which was to shape the ideology of Benito Mussolini, and still another of which provided ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • The Politics of Memory in Postwar Europe

    For sixty years, different groups in Europe have put forth interpretations of World War II and their respective countries’ roles in it consistent with their own political and psychological needs. The conflict over the past has played out in diverse arenas, including film, memoirs, court cases, and textbooks. It has had profound implications for democratization and relations between neighboring ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity

    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    Romanticism is a worldview that finds expression over a whole range of cultural fields—not only in literature and art but in philosophy, theology, political theory, and social movements. In Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity Michael Löwy and Robert Sayre formulate a theory that defines romanticism as a cultural protest against modern bourgeois industrial civilization and work to reveal the ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Left-Wing Melancholia

    Marxism, History, and Memory

    by Enzo Traverso ...
    Series Book 17 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    The fall of the Berlin Wall marked the end of the Cold War but also the rise of a melancholic vision of history as a series of losses. For the political left, the cause lost was communism, and this trauma determined how leftists wrote the next chapter in their political struggle and how they have thought about their past since. Throughout the twentieth century, argues Left-Wing Melancholia, from ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Bauhaus Construct

    Fashioning Identity, Discourse and Modernism

    Reconsidering the status and meaning of Bauhaus objects in relation to the multiple re-tellings of the school’s history, this volume positions art objects of the Bauhaus within the theoretical, artistic, historical, and cultural concerns in which they were produced and received.Contributions from leading scholars writing in the field today – including Frederic J. Schwartz, Magdalena Droste, and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Modern German Culture

    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    One of the most intriguing questions of our time is how some of the masterpieces of modernity originated in a country in which personal liberty and democracy were slow to emerge. This Companion provides an authoritative account of modern German culture since the onset of industrialisation, the rise of mass society and the nation state. Newly written and researched by experts in their respective ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • The Image of Man

    The Creation of Modern Masculinity

    Series series Studies in the History of Sexuality
    The stereotype of masculinity embraces many qualities. To be manly one must be brave, daring, and cool under fire. A man must be physically strong--tough, skillful, dexterous. And one must also be honorable, honest, and courteous. A man must not complain. A man must not lose control of his emotions. A man must not cry. Even today, many men would accept these qualities as defining masculinity. But ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Histories of the Immediate Present

    Inventing Architectural Modernism

    Series series Writing Architecture
    How the different narratives of four historians of architectural modernism—Emil Kaufmann, Colin Rowe, Reyner Banham, and Manfredo Tafuri—advanced specific versions of modernism.Architecture, at least since the beginning of the twentieth century, has suspended historical references in favor of universalized abstraction. In the decades after the Second World War, when architectural historians began ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Theaters of Justice

    Judging, Staging, and Working Through in Arendt, Brecht, and Delbo

    by Yasco Horsman ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    What role do legal trials have in collective processes of coming to terms with a history of mass violence? How does the theatrical structure of a criminal trial facilitate and limit national processes of healing and learning from the past? This study begins with the widely publicized, historic trials of three Nazi war criminals, Eichmann, Barbie, and Priebke, whose explicit goal was not only to ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Reassessing the Transnational Turn

    Scales of Analysis in Anarchist and Syndicalist Studies

    This edited volume reassesses the ongoing transnational turn in anarchist and syndicalist studies, a field where the interest in cross-border connections has generated much innovative literature in the last decade. It presents and extends up-to-date research into several dynamic historiographic fields, and especially the history of the anarchist and syndicalist movements and the notions of ... Read more

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