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Biological modernism : the new human in Weimar culture / Carl Gelderloos.

By: Publisher: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2020Description: x, 226 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780810141322
  • 9780810141339
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 830.9356109042 23 G315
LOC classification:
  • PT405 .G436 2020
Contents:
Introduction. Modern German Culture in a Life Crisis -- Helmuth Plessner's Eccentric Human among the Disciplines -- Photography's Natural Histories in the Weimar Republic -- Döblin's Epic Embodied -- Organic Modernization: Wholeness and Development in Ernst Jünger's The Worker -- Conclusion
Summary: "Biological Modernism details how German writers during the Weimar Republic drew on discourses and tropes from the biological sciences to redefine the human being for a modern, technological age"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-220) and index.

Introduction. Modern German Culture in a Life Crisis -- Helmuth Plessner's Eccentric Human among the Disciplines -- Photography's Natural Histories in the Weimar Republic -- Döblin's Epic Embodied -- Organic Modernization: Wholeness and Development in Ernst Jünger's The Worker -- Conclusion

"Biological Modernism details how German writers during the Weimar Republic drew on discourses and tropes from the biological sciences to redefine the human being for a modern, technological age"-- Provided by publisher.