Meike G. Werner

Germany's Other Modernism (eBook, PDF)

The Jena Paradigm, 1900-1914
Übersetzer: Dowden, Stephen D.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Demonstrates, contrary to conventional wisdom, that European modernism developed not only in the great metropolitan centers, but also in provincial cities such as Jena.

The conventional wisdom is that the cultural sea change that was European modernism arose in urban centers like Berlin, Paris, Munich, and Vienna. Meike G. Werner's book, now in English translation, is a study of modernism in the provinces. Taking the small provincial city of Jena as a paradigmatic case, it re-creates the very different social and intellectual framework in which modernist experimentation occurred beyond the metropolitan centers. Invented traditions, social and spatial "liminality," and new ideas of social and aesthetic transformation combined in Jena to create a unique moment of cultural innovation.
In the years leading up to the First World War, the Jena publisher Eugen Diederichs envisioned and guided the development of this alternative modernism. Taken up by young writers including Diederichs's wife Helene Voigt-Diederichs, numerous intellectual outsiders from across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, and members of the Free Student movement and of Jena's Sera Circle, this "other" modernism was above all a youth movement, full of energy and bold optimism. Figures such as Rudolf Carnap, Wilhelm Flitner, Hans Freyer, Karl Korsch, and Elisabeth Busse-Wilson emerged from this Jena paradigm. Werner pieces together the story of Jena's modernism in its full richness, complexity, and inner contradictions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781800108912
• Artikelnr.: 67457248

Autorenporträt

MEIKE G. WERNER is Associate Professor of German and European Studies at Vanderbilt University and President of the American Friends of the German Literature Archive in Marbach A.N.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Abbreviations Prologue 1: The Stage, or: Genius loci 2: The
Publisher as Founder of a Cultural Empire: Eugen Diederichs in Jena 3:
"Away from Berlin" and Literature in Jena: Helene Voigt-Diederichs 4:
Dancing on the Volcano: "Young Jena" Epilogue: What They Wanted, What They
Became Bibliography Index