{"product_id":"the-weimar-republic-sourcebook","title":"The Weimar Republic Sourcebook","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdited by Anton Kæs, Martin Jay, Edward Dimendberg\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"This is an essential book for anyone teaching a course on the Weimar Republic, and advanced students should be advised to purchase it.\"—\u003cem\u003eGerman History\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe Weimar Republic Sourcebook\u003c\/em\u003e is an invaluable resource for understanding one of the most important and resonant eras of the twentieth century. Since the Weimar debate has continued to repeat itself, albeit with less intellectual brilliance, this book is as much about the present as about the past. Here is the Weimar era in all its many-voiced and eloquent complexity: most of these texts, even those by the most famous names of the period, appear for the first time in English. This is an indispensable, enthralling, properly ambitious book.\"—Susan Sontag\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe Weimar Republic Sourcebook\u003c\/em\u003e will almost certainly transform the way the intellectual legacy of the Weimar Republic is thought about and taught in the English-speaking world.\"—\u003cem\u003eModernism\/modernity\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA laboratory for competing visions of modernity, the Weimar Republic (1918-1933) continues to haunt the imagination of the twentieth century. Its political and cultural lessons retain uncanny relevance for all who seek to understand the tensions and possibilities of our age. The Weimar Republic Sourcebook represents the most comprehensive documentation of Weimar culture, history, and politics assembled in any language. It invites a wide community of readers to discover the richness and complexity of the turbulent years in Germany before Hitler's rise to power.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing from such primary sources as magazines, newspapers, manifestoes, and official documents (many unknown even to specialists and most never before available in English), this book challenges the traditional boundaries between politics, culture, and social life. Its thirty chapters explore Germany's complex relationship to democracy, ideologies of \"reactionary modernism,\" the rise of the \"New Woman,\" Bauhaus architecture, the impact of mass media, the literary life, the tradition of cabaret and urban entertainment, and the situation of Jews, intellectuals, and workers before and during the emergence of fascism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile devoting much attention to the Republic's varied artistic and intellectual achievements (the Frankfurt School, political theater, twelve-tone music, cultural criticism, photomontage, and urban planning), the book is unique for its inclusion of many lesser-known materials on popular culture, consumerism, body culture, drugs, criminality, and sexuality; it also contains a timetable of major political events, an extensive bibliography, and capsule biographies. This will be a major resource and reference work for students and scholars in history; art; architecture; literature; social and political thought; and cultural, film, German, and women's studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback\u003cbr\u003e806 pages\u003cbr\u003eUniversity of California Press, 1995\u003cbr\u003e6.5 x 1.8 x 9.8 inches\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9780520067752\u003cbr\u003eGerman History, Philosophy, Culture Studies  \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":17900434949,"sku":"9780520067752","price":52.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0175\/8594\/products\/The-Weimar-Republic-Sourcebook_Anton-Kaes_Martin-Jay_Edward-Dimendberg.jpg?v=1591633724","url":"https:\/\/neue-galerie-design-shop.myshopify.com\/products\/the-weimar-republic-sourcebook","provider":"Neue Galerie Design Shop \u0026 Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}