Mobile modernity : Germans, Jews, trains /
"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 tired m...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2007]
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| Series: | Cultures of history.
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Table of 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.