Biological Modernism
«"Biological Modernism: The New Human in Weimar Culture is a thought-provoking reexamination of some of the most entrenched narratives we have about modernity in the Weimar Republic." —June J. Hwang, author of Lost in Time: Locating the Stranger in German Modernity»
Biological Modernism identifies an intellectual current in the Weimar Republic that drew on biology, organicism, vitalism, and other discourses associated with living nature in order to redefine the human being for a modern, technological age. Les mer
Organic life, instead of representing a stabilizing sense of wholeness, by the 1920s had become a scientific, philosophical, and disciplinary problem. In their work, figures such as Alfred Doeblin, Ernst Junger, Helmuth Plessner, and August Sander interrogated the relationships between technology, nature, and the human, and thus also radically reconsidered the relationship between the disciplines as well as the epistemological and political consequences for defining the human being. Biological Modernism will be of interest to scholars of German literature and culture, literary modernism, photography, philosophical anthropology, twentieth-century intellectual history, the politics of culture, and the history of science.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Northwestern University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780810141339
- Utgivelsesår
- 2019
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
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«"Biological Modernism: The New Human in Weimar Culture is a thought-provoking reexamination of some of the most entrenched narratives we have about modernity in the Weimar Republic." —June J. Hwang, author of Lost in Time: Locating the Stranger in German Modernity»