Title Mobile modernity : Germans, Jews, trains / Todd Samuel Presner

Published New York : Columbia University Press, [2007] ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 368 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Cultures of history Cultures of history. Contents Dialectics at a standstill -- Berlin and Delos : Celan's no-places and Heidegger's homecomings : philosophy and poetry out of material history -- Sicily, New York City, and the Baranovich station : German/Jewish subject without a nation : on the meta-epistemology of mobility and mass-migration -- The North Sea : Jews on ships : or, how Heine's Reisebilder deconstruct Hegel's philosophy of world history -- Nuremburg-Fürth-Palestine : some assembly required : global anxieties and corporeal fantasies of German/Jewish nationality -- Auschwitz : "the fabrication of corpses" : Heidegger, Arendt, and the modernity of mass death -- Vienna-Rome-Prague-Antwerp-Paris : the railway ruins of modernity : Freud and Sebald on the narration of German/Jewish remains Summary "Treating the German railway as both an iconic symbol of modernity and a crucial social, technological, and political force, Presner advances a groundbreaking interpretation of the ways in which mobility is inextricably linked to German and Jewish visions of modernity. Moving beyond the tired model of a failed German-Jewish dialogue, Presner emphasizes the mutual entanglement of the very categories of German and Jewish and the many sites of contact and exchange that occurred between German and Jewish thinkers." "Rather than a conventional, linear history that culminates in the tragedy of the Holocaust, Presner produces a cultural mapping that articulates a much more complex story of the hopes and catastrophes of mobile modernity. By focusing on the spaces of encounter emblematically represented by the overdetermined triangulation of Germans, Jews, and trains, he introduces a new genealogy for the study of European and German-Jewish modernity."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-346) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Jews -- Germany -- Intellectual life -- 19th century Jews -- Germany -- Intellectual life -- 20th century Jews -- Germany -- Identity Jews -- Cultural assimilation -- Germany German literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism Technology -- Social aspects. Technology and civilization. SCIENCE -- Philosophy & Social Aspects. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Social Aspects. LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. Jews -- Germany -- Intellectual life -- 19th century. Jews -- Germany -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. Jews -- Germany -- Identity. Jews -- Cultural assimilation -- Germany. German literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism. Technology -- Social aspects. Technology and civilization. German literature -- Jewish authors Jews -- Cultural assimilation Jews -- Identity Jews -- Intellectual life Technology and civilization Technology -- Social aspects Kultur Geistesleben Akkulturation Intellektueller Mobilität Eisenbahn Judentum Assimilation Soziologie Deutsche Juden Moderne Judar -- intellektuellt liv -- historia -- Tyskland -- 1900-talet. Germany Deutschland Juden. Deutsche. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780231511582 0231511582

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