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Author:

Presner, Todd Samuel.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Columbia University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

xi, 368 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Jews--Germany--Intellectual life--19th century.
Jews--Germany--Intellectual life--20th century.
Jews--Germany--Identity.
Jews--Cultural assimilation--Germany.
German literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Technology--Social aspects.
Technology and civilization.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 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-Fèurth-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.

Series:

Cultures of history.

ISBN:

9780231511582 (ebook)
0231511582 (ebook)
9780231140126 (alk. paper)
0231140126 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)71275562

LCCN:

2006029198

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)