Culture and Inflation in Weimar Germany.
Title:
Culture and Inflation in Weimar Germany.
Author:
Widdig, Bernd.
ISBN:
9780520924703
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (295 pages)
Series:
Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism ; v.26
Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism
Contents:
Preliminaries -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Money Matters: Culture and Inflation -- 2. Flirting with Disaster -- 3. Daily Explosions: Canetti's Inflation -- 4. Under the Sign of Zero: Money and Inflation -- 5. Uncanny Encounters: Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler -- 6. Visions of Work: Hugo Stinnes and His Doubles -- 7. Cultural Capital in Decline: Inflation and the Distress of Intellectuals -- 8. Witches Dancing: Gender and Inflation -- 9. Aftershocks: Inflation, National Socialism, and Beyond -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
For many Germans the hyperinflation of 1922 to 1923 was one of the most decisive experiences of the twentieth century. In his original and authoritative study, Bernd Widdig investigates the effects of that inflation on German culture during the Weimar Republic. He argues that inflation, with its dynamics of massification, devaluation, and the rapid circulation of money, is an integral part of modern culture and intensifies and condenses the experience of modernity in a traumatic way.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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