A laboratory for competing visions of modernity, the Weimar
Republic (1918-1933) continues to haunt the imagination of the
twentieth century. Its political and cultural lessons retain
uncanny relevance for all who seek to understand the tensions and
possibilities of our age. "The Weimar Republic Sourcebook"
represents the most comprehensive documentation of Weimar culture,
history, and politics assembled in any language. It invites a wide
community of readers to discover the richness and complexity of the
turbulent years in Germany before Hitler's rise to power. Drawing
from such primary sources as magazines, newspapers, manifestos, and
official documents (many unknown even to specialists and most never
before available in English), this book challenges the traditional
boundaries between politics, culture, and social life. Its thirty
chapters explore Germany's complex relationship to democracy,
ideologies of 'reactionary modernism', the rise of the 'New Woman',
Bauhaus architecture, the impact of mass media, the literary life,
the tradition of cabaret and urban entertainment, and the situation
of Jews, intellectuals, and workers before and during the emergence
of fascism. While devoting much attention to the Republic's varied
artistic and intellectual achievements (the Frankfurt School,
political theater, twelve-tone music, cultural criticism,
photomontage, and urban planning), the book is unique for its
inclusion of many lesser-known materials on popular culture,
consumerism, body culture, drugs, criminality, and sexuality; it
also contains a timetable of major political events, an extensive
bibliography, and capsule biographies. This will be a major
resource and reference work for students and scholars in history;
art; architecture; literature; social and political thought; and,
cultural, film, German, and women's studies.
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