| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 368 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Cultures of history.
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Cultures of history.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-346) and index. |
| 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 |
Though the history of the German railway system is often associated with the transportation of Jews to labor and death camps, Todd Presner looks instead to the completion of the first German railway lines and their role in remapping the cultural geography and intellectual history of Germany's Jews. 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Jews -- Germany -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
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Jews. |
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Germany. |
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Intellectual life. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Jews -- Germany -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Jews -- Germany -- Identity.
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Identity (Philosophical concept) |
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Jews -- Cultural assimilation -- Germany.
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Jews -- Cultural assimilation. |
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German literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism.
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German literature -- Jewish authors. |
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Technology -- Social aspects.
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Technology -- Social aspects. |
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Technology and civilization.
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Technology and civilization. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Computer network resources.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Presner, Todd Samuel. Mobile modernity. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2007 (DLC) 2006029198 |
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Print version: Presner, Todd Samuel. Mobile modernity. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2007 (OCoLC)761141615 |
| ISBN |
0231511582 (electronic book) |
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9780231511582 (electronic book) |
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0231140126 (alkaline paper) |
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9780231140126 (alkaline paper) |
| Music No. |
EB00662434 Recorded Books |
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