Table of Contents
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Book Overview
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Chapter 1
Introduction: The Future’s Past—Modernism, Critique, and the Political
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Chapter 2
Hans Pfitzner and the Anxiety of Nostalgic Modernism
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Chapter 3
Mahler, Rembrandt, and the Dark Side of German Culture
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Chapter 4
The Resistance to Modernism in Karl Gjellerup’s Germanernes Lærling (1882)
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Chapter 5
Knut Hamsun’s “White Negro” from Ringen Sluttet (1936)—Or the Politics of Race
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Chapter 6
Eugenic Sterilization and the Role of Science—The Scandinavian Case
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Chapter 7
Reactionary Engineers? Technocracy and the Kulturfaktor Technik in Weimar Germany
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Chapter 8
Science, Art, and the Question of the Visible: Rudolf Virchow, Hannah Höch, and “Immediate Visual Perception”
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Chapter 9
Imagining the New Berlin: Modernism, Mass Utopia, and the Architectural Avant-Garde
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Chapter 10
Rebuilding Babel: Urban Regeneration in the Modern/Postmodern Age
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Chapter 11
Politicizing Painting: The Case of New Objectivity
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Chapter 12
Modernism from Weimar to Hollywood: Expressionism/New Objectivity/Noir?
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Chapter 13
Clement Greenberg and the Postwar Modernist Canon: Minimizing the Role of Germany and Northern Europe
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Chapter 14
Framing Sight: Modernism and Nazi Visual Culture
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Chapter 15
A Woman Beside Herself: Art and Its Other in Nazi Movies
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Chapter 16
The Stakes of the Political According to Carl Schmitt
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Chapter 17
Sovereignty and Its Discontents
Attention for Chapter 6:
Eugenic Sterilization and the Role of Science—The Scandinavian Case