Individuality and modernity in Berlin : self and society from Weimar to the Wall / / Moritz Föllmer [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Föllmer Moritz
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 312 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 943/.155087
• Soggetto topico: Individuality - Germany - Berlin - History - 20th century; Self - Social aspects - Germany - Berlin - History - 20th century; Risk - Social aspects - Germany - Berlin - History - 20th century; Agent (Philosophy) - Social aspects - Germany - Berlin - History - 20th century; Social isolation - Germany - Berlin - History - 20th century; City and town life - Germany - Berlin - History - 20th century; Social change - Germany - Berlin - History - 20th century; Politics and culture - Germany - Berlin - History - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: Berlin (Germany) Social life and customs 20th century; Berlin (Germany) Social conditions 20th century
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Part I. Weimar Berlin: 1. Risk, isolation and unstable selfhood; 2. Flexibility, authenticity and consumption; 3. Reform, scandal and extremism -- Part II. Nazi Berlin: 4. Redefining legitimate individuality; 5. Jewish Berliners' ambiguous quest for agency; 6. Heroism, withdrawal and privatist loyalty -- Part III. Post-War and Cold-War Berlin: 7. Defeat, self-help and the dissociation from Nazism; 8. Socialist ambitions and individualist expectations; 9. Anti-totalitarianism, domesticity and ambivalent modernity -- Conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: Moritz Föllmer traces the history of individuality in Berlin from the late 1920s to the construction of the Berlin Wall in August 1961. The demand to be recognised as an individual was central to metropolitan society, as were the spectres of risk, isolation and loss of agency. This was true under all five regimes of the period, through economic depression, war, occupation and reconstruction. The quest for individuality could put democracy under pressure, as in the Weimar years, and could be satisfied by a dictatorship, as was the case in the Third Reich. It was only in the course of the 1950s, when liberal democracy was able to offer superior opportunities for consumerism, that individuality finally claimed the mantle. Individuality and Modernity in Berlin proposes a fresh perspective on twentieth-century Berlin that will engage readers with an interest in the German metropolis as well as European urban history more broadly.
• Altri titoli varianti: Individuality & Modernity in Berlin
• Titolo autorizzato: Individuality and modernity in Berlin
• ISBN: 1-139-61108-9; 1-107-23764-5; 1-139-61294-8; 1-139-62224-2; 1-283-94324-7; 1-139-62596-9; 1-139-60928-9; 1-139-38097-4; 1-139-61666-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910462819803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: New studies in European history.