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Jost Hermand - Culture in Dark Times: Nazi Fascism, Inner Emigration, and Exile - 9780857455901 - V9780857455901
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Culture in Dark Times: Nazi Fascism, Inner Emigration, and Exile

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Description for Culture in Dark Times: Nazi Fascism, Inner Emigration, and Exile Hardcover. This book analyzes the highly complex interconnections among the cultural-political concepts of various ideological groups and asks why the most artistically ambitious art forms were viewed as politically important by all cultured (or even semi-cultured) Germans in the period from 1933 to 1945.. Translator(s): Hill, Victoria W. Num Pages: 296 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 536. Nazi Fascism, Inner Emigration, and Exile. 272 pages, Illustrations. This book analyzes the highly complex interconnections among the cultural-political concepts of various ideological groups and asks why the most artistically ambitious art forms were viewed as politically important by all cultured (or even semi-cultured) Germans in the period from 1933 to 1945. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB. Dimension: 238 x 157 x 20. Weight: 536. Translator(s): Hill, Victoria W.

BETWEEN 1933 AND 1945 MEMBERS OF THREE GROUPS—THE Nazi fascists, Inner Emigration, and Exiles—fought with equal fervor over who could definitively claim to represent the authentically “great German culture,” as it was culture that imparted real value to both the state and the individual. But when authorities made pronouncements about “culture” were they really talking about high art? This book analyzes the highly complex interconnections among the cultural-political concepts of these various ideological groups and asks why the most artistically ambitious art forms were viewed as politically important by all cultured (or even semi-cultured) Germans in the period from ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Number of Pages
294
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857455901
SKU
V9780857455901
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About Jost Hermand
Jost Hermand is Vilas Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and Honorary Professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin. He has been visiting professor at universities across the U.S. and Germany, is a fellow of the Vienna Academy, member of the Saxon Academy in Leipzig, and holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Kassel.

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CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE 2013 “What makes this volume particularly valuable is the book's comprehensiveness. Its encyclopedic range will enable students to get a real sense of the complexity of the arts under German fascism…n sum this well-written volume by a master in his field will be an extremely useful guide to interwar German culture…Essential.”  ·  Choice ... Read more

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