Gelderloos, Carl,

Biological modernism : the new human in Weimar culture / Carl Gelderloos. - x, 226 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

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"--

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German literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Modernism (Literature)--Germany.
Human beings in literature.
Biology in literature.

PT405 / .G436 2020

830.9356109042 / G315