Mobile modernity : Germans, Jews, trains / Todd Samuel Presner
- Author
- Presner, Todd Samuel
- Published
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2007]
- Copyright Date
- ©2007
- Physical Description
- xi, 368 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Series
- Contents
- Dialectics at a standstill -- Berlin and Delos : Celan's no-places and Heidegger's homecomings : philosophy and poetry out of material history -- Sicily, New York City, and the Baranovich station : German/Jewish subject without a nation : on the meta-epistemology of mobility and mass-migration -- The North Sea : Jews on ships : or, how Heine's Reisebilder deconstruct Hegel's philosophy of world history -- Nuremburg-Fürth-Palestine : some assembly required : global anxieties and corporeal fantasies of German/Jewish nationality -- Auschwitz : "the fabrication of corpses" : Heidegger, Arendt, and the modernity of mass death -- Vienna-Rome-Prague-Antwerp-Paris : the railway ruins of modernity : Freud and Sebald on the narration of German/Jewish remains.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 0231140126 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780231140126 (cloth : alk. paper)
0231511582 (ebook)
9780231511582 (ebook) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-346) and index.
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