In the Shadow of Catastrophe(Updated) German Intellectuals Between Apocalypse and Enlightenment (Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism) 通过 AnsonRabinbach Paperback, 252 页, 发布时间 2001 通过 University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-22690-6, ISBN: 0-520-22690-9
"These essays by eminent European intellectual and cultural historian Anson Rabinbach address the writings of key figures in twentieth-century German philosophy. Rabinbach explores their ideas in relation to the two world wars and the horrors facing Europe at that time. Analyzing the work of Benjamin and Bloch, he suggests their indebtedness to the traditions of Jewish messianism. In a discussion of Hugo Ball's little-known "Critique of ..."
"This issue examines the legacy of Nazi-looted art in light of the 2012 discovery of the famous Hildebrand Gurlitt collection of stolen artwork in Germany. When the German government declassified the case almost two years later, the resulting scandal raised fundamental questions about the role of art dealers in the Third Reich, the mechanics of the Nazi black market for artwork, the shortcomings of postwar denazification, the failure of ..."
"MERGEFIELD AI_Copy In 1933, Jews and, to a lesser extent, political opponents of the Nazis, suffered an unprecedented loss of positions and livelihood at Germany’s universities. With few exceptions, the academic elite welcomed and justified the acts of the Nazi regime, uttered no word of protest when their Jewish and liberal colleagues were dismissed, and did not stir when Jewish students were barred admission. The subject of how Germa ..."
The Human Motor(1st Edition) Energy, Fatigue, and the Origins of Modernity 通过 AnsonRabinbach Paperback, 432 页, 发布时间 1992 通过 University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-07827-7, ISBN: 0-520-07827-6
"Science once had an unshakable faith in its ability to bring the forces of nature - even human nature - under control. In this wide-ranging book Anson Rabinbach examines how developments in physics, biology, medicine, psychology, politics, and art employed the metaphor of the working body as a human motor. From nineteenth-century theories of thermodynamics and political economy to the twentieth-century ideals of Taylorism and Fordism, R ..."
"The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor traces the shift from the eighteenth-century concept of man as machine to the late twentieth-century notion of digital organisms. Step by step―from Jacques de Vaucanson and his Digesting Duck, through Karl Marx’s Capital, Hermann von Helmholtz’s social thermodynamics, Albert Speer’s Beauty of Labor program in Nazi Germany, and on to the post-Fordist workplace, Rabinbach shows how society, the body, an ..."
"This issue explores how intellectual theories migrate from Germany to the United States, asking what makes one theory compatible with and successful in the new society while others have little impact. Avoiding the obvious successes (from Marx to the Frankfurt School) and failures (authors whose translated works have had no effect on intellectual life in the United States), contributors investigate complicated cases in which the US recep ..."
"No documentation of National Socialism can be undertaken without the explicit recognition that the "German Renaissance" promised by the Nazis culminated in unprecedented horror - World War II and the genocide of European Jewry. With "The Third Reich Sourcebook", editors Anson Rabinbach and Sander L. Gilman present a comprehensive collection of newly translated documents drawn from wide-ranging primary sources, documenting both the offic ..."
In the Shadow of Catastrophe German Intellectuals Between Apocalypse and Enlightenment (Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism) 通过 AnsonRabinbach Hardcover, 252 页, 发布时间 1997 通过 University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-20744-8, ISBN: 0-520-20744-0
"These essays by eminent European intellectual and cultural historian Anson Rabinbach address the writings of key figures in twentieth- century German philosophy. Rabinbach explores their ideas in relation to the two world wars and the horrors facing Europe at that time. Analyzing the work of Benjamin and Bloch, he suggests their indebtedness to the traditions of Jewish messianism. In a discussion of Hugo Ball's little- known Cri ..."
"The legendary correspondence between the critic Walter Benjamin and the historian Gershom Scholem bears indispensable witness to the inner lives of two remarkable and enigmatic personalities. Benjamin, acknowledged today as on of the leading literary and social critics of his day, was known during his lifetime by only a small circle of friends and intellectual confreres. Scholem recognized the genius of his friend and mentor during thei ..."
Forms of Living Ser. The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor 通过 AnsonRabinbach Hardcover, 248 页, 发布时间 2018 通过 Fordham University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8232-7856-5, ISBN: 0-8232-7856-5
"The book looks at the rise and decline of "the great utopias of labor" in the first half of the twentieth century."
The Human Motor(1st Edition) Energy, Fatigue, and the Origins of Modernity 通过 AnsonRabinbach Hardcover, 432 页, 发布时间 1990 通过 Basic Books ISBN-13: 978-0-465-03130-6, ISBN: 0-465-03130-7
"Science once had an unshakable faith in its ability to bring the forces of nature--even human nature--under control. In this wide-ranging book Anson Rabinbach examines how developments in physics, biology, medicine, psychology, politics, and art employed the metaphor of the working body as a human motor.From nineteenth-century theories of thermodynamics and political economy to the twentieth-century ideals of Taylorism and Fordism, Rabi ..."
"This special issue of "New German Critique" explores the art of Dada and photomontage in transnational contexts. Dadaism, an art movement cultivated during World War I, questioned traditional aesthetics and eventually led to the formation of surrealism. Focusing on Dada's achievements in building a network of artists in Europe and America, this issue examines photomontage as an integral part of the movement, as well as its relationship ..."
Germans and Jews Since the Holocaust, the Changing Situation in West Germany 通过 AnsonRabinbach, Jack David Zipes Paperback, 365 页, 发布时间 1983 通过 Holmes & Meier Pub ISBN-13: 978-0-8419-0925-0, ISBN: 0-8419-0925-3
"Examines the perplexing issues and polemics surrounding the recent reconsideration of the Jewish-German synthesis. In wide-ranging essays, the contributors explore the ways in which contemporary German culture and society reflect the intellectual
achievements of jewish-German critical thought during the Wilhelminian and Weimar epoch, while perpetuating anti-Semitic currents in social institutions, daily life. and politics-from the pro-Ar ..."
The Crisis of Austrian Socialism(1st Edition) From Red Vienna to Civil War, 1927-1934 通过 AnsonRabinbach Hardcover, 296 页, 发布时间 1983 通过 The University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-70121-9, ISBN: 0-226-70121-2
"Klaus Theweleit. A book is "completed" not so much because the author has "
finished" thinking it through and writing it, but because of a decision to do so,
because of financial and other reasons. Comparing quotes with the original,
checking ... It was a period worse than all the previous years of writing, and it
made it more difficult for Monika and I to live together than in the years before
when we had been able to share the tim ..."
"No documentation of National Socialism can be undertaken without the explicit recognition that the "German Renaissance" promised by the Nazis culminated in unprecedented horror - World War II and the genocide of European Jewry. With "The Third Reich Sourcebook", editors Anson Rabinbach and Sander L. Gilman present a comprehensive collection of newly translated documents drawn from wide-ranging primary sources, documenting both the offic ..."
"We have learned: What God has separated, man should not bring together.
Heaven thought it good not to have only one type of people on the earth but
different kinds, various racially bound peoples. That is a part of Creation. We bow
before this truth and respect its borders. That means that the foundation of our
separation of the races is not a matter of politics or economics but rather it rests
on a higher level, to which we in the ..."
Begriffe aus dem Kalten Krieg Totalitarismus, Genozid und Geschichtsschreibung 通过 AnsonRabinbach Paperback, 114 页, 发布时间 2009 通过 Wallstein Verlag Gmbh ISBN-13: 978-3-8353-0412-3, ISBN: 3-8353-0412-7