General Information

Author/Creator

Presner, Todd Samuel, 1972-

Language

English.

Published

New York : Columbia University Press, c2007.

Physical Description

xi, 368 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Series

Cultures of history

Subjects

Subject

Jews > Germany > Intellectual life > 19th century.

Jews > Germany > Intellectual life > 20th century.

Jews > Germany > Identity.

Jews > Cultural assimilation > Germany.

German literature > Jewish authors > History and criticism.

Technology > Social aspects.

Technology and civilization.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Todd Samuel Presner.

Content

1. Dialectics at a Standstill -- 2. Berlin and Delos. Celan's No-Places and Heidegger's Homecomings: Philosophy and Poetry Out of Material History -- 3. Sicily, New York City, and the Baranovich Station. German/Jewish Subject Without a Nation: On the Meta-epistemology of Mobility and Mass Migration -- 4. The North Sea. Jews on Ships; or, How Heine's Reisebilder Deconstruct Hegel's Philosophy of World History -- 5. Nuremburg-Fürth-Palestine. Some Assembly Required: Global Anxieties and Corporeal Fantasies of German/Jewish Nationality -- 6. Auschwitz. "The Fabrication of Corpses": Heidegger, Arendt, and the Modernity of Mass Death -- 7. Vienna-Rome-Prague-Antwerp-Paris. The Railway Ruins of Modernity: Freud and Sebald on the Narration of German/Jewish Remains -- Concluding Remarks.

Library Special Collection

The Roger Griffin ComFas Collection

ISBN

0231140126

9780231140126

0231511582

9780231511582

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	303.48/320943 PRE		General Stacks	-

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