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Righteous Politics
Since the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1979, the Iranian political system has been subject to diminishing legitimacy. In recent years, various waves of protest have spread across the country and the question of the resilience of the revolutionary state becomes more pressing by the day. Drawing from extensive fieldwork and rare primary sources, Mehran Kamrava provides here a comprehensive and accessible analysis of the Iranian state and the various formal and informal institutions through which it operates. The book offers an in-depth analysis of the Iranian state, from the Constitution to the powers and offices of the Supreme Leader, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to the several intelligence agencies. Paying careful attention to the nuances of Iranian politics, Kamrava also highlights how factional politics and rentierism have served to enhance state resilience. Presenting a range of original insights, this book is invaluable to understanding the inner workings of the contemporary Iranian state.
Cool Conduct
Cool Conduct is an elegant interpretation of attitudes and mentalities that informed the Weimar Republic by a scholar well known for his profound knowledge of this period. Helmut Lethen writes of "cool conduct" as a cultivated antidote to the heated atmosphere of post-World War I Germany, as a way of burying shame and animosity that might otherwise make social contact impossible.
Feuchtwanger, Brecht
Contrasts Feuchtwanger's essentialist concept of the cultural antithesis between the Orient and the West to Brecht's undifferentiated view of both as class societies capable of change and development. Shows that Feuchtwanger's concept of the Orient as the Other had its roots in a long German intellectual tradition, which related in an analogous manner to the Jews. This dichotomy, also in himself, between German and Jew, and the resulting lack of acceptance in German society, haunted Feuchtwanger, who wrote his dissertation on "Der Rabbi von Bacherach" and on Heine, another soul torn between two identities and cast out by Germany. Many of Feuchtwanger's later works similarly deal with this theme. However, Feuchtwanger also saw in the Jew the go-between and synthesis between East and West. See especially ch. 3, "Indiendiskurs und Antisemitismus".
Science, Technology and the German Cultural Imagination
This volume of conference papers highlights the connections between developments in technology and scientific thought since the 16th century on the one hand, and the ways in which the creative imagination of literary writers has responded to those developments on the other.
Atlantic Automobilism
Offering a sweeping transatlantic perspective, this book explains the current obsession with automobiles by delving deep into the motives of early car users. It provides a synthesis of our knowledge about the emergence and persistence of the car, using a broad range of material including novels, poems, films, and songs ...
Nazi Volksgemeinschaft Technology
This book traces how Gottfried Feder and Fritz Todt made technology essential to the Nazi ‘world view’. They groomed engineers with a racist technical ideology that prepared them to later supervise slave labor and the Holocaust. Their concepts evolved from völkisch technocracy to an idealized harmony of man, machine and nature, and were eclipsed by Albert Speer’s total war. Partially due to willing ‘self-coordination’ from engineers, they gained political control over the engineering profession. Destined to be pillars of the Volksgemeinschaft, engineers were indoctrinated with Nazi principles of Aryan superiority at the Reich School of Technology, the Plassenburg. Nazi propaganda announced a bright future through technology, furthering a sense of normalcy in Germany, despite the ruthless exclusion of those unwanted.
Helmuth Von Moltke and the Origins of the First World War
A study of the influence of German Chief of Staff Helmuth von Moltke, 1906-1914.
Fascism, Aviation and Mythical Modernity
Flying and the pilot were significant metaphors of fascism's mythical modernity. Fernando Esposito traces the changing meanings of these highly charged symbols from the air show in Brescia, to the sky above the trenches of the First World War to the violent ideological clashes of the interwar period.
Kalkutta, 4.Mai
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