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Nicolaus Sombart - Utopist, Libertin, Dandy
Nicolaus Sombart (1923-2008), der in Berlin einen berühmten Salon unterhielt, war eine Reizfigur der bundesrepublikanischen Gesellschaft. Als Soziologe deutete er die deutsche Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte als eine "chronique scandaleuse" der Geschlechterverhältnisse. Als Literat verstand er sich als einen Chronisten der "großen Welt", als einen der wenigen seiner Profession, der Zugang zu ihren Umgangs- und Verhaltensformen und erotischen Geheimnissen besaß. Der Anhänger des Utopisten Saint-Simon betrachtete sein Leben als ein unausgesetztes Experiment. Sein Bestreben war die Selbststilisierung der Person durch eine Verbindung von großbürgerlichem Habitus, dandyhafter Exzentrik und exhibitionistischer Geste, ein Unterfangen, das seine Wirkung in der heutigen medial geprägten Welt nicht verfehlte. Mit seiner facettenreichen Biographie dieser schillernden Figur der Berliner Society fügt der Kultursoziologe Günter Erbe seinen Untersuchungen der mondänen Welt ein weiteres erhellendes Kapitel hinzu. Er stützt sich dabei auf den umfangreichen Nachlass Nicolaus Sombarts.
Kaiser Wilhelm II New Interpretations
As assessment of the Kaiser's character and its implications on Imperial German history.
High Society in the Third Reich
This book is the first systematic study of the relations between German high society and the Nazis. It uses unpublished archival material, private diaries and diplomatic documents to take us into the hidden areas of power where privileges, tax breaks, and stolen property were exchanged. Fabrice D'Almeida begins by examining high society in the Weimar period, dominated by the old imperial aristocracy and a new republican aristocracy of government officials and wealthy businessmen. It was in this group that Hitler made his social debut in the early 1920s through the mediation of conservative friends and artists, including the family of the composer Richard Wagner. By the end of the 1920s, he e...
Crisis and Renewal in the History of European Political Thought
This volume advances a better, more historical and contextual, manner to consider not only the present, but also the future of ‘crisis’ and ‘renewal’ as key concepts of our political language as well as fundamental categories of interpretation.
Moralizing Capitalism
This book adds a crucial focus on morality to the growing literature on the history of capitalism by exploring social and cultural perspectives on the economic order that has dominated the modern world. Taking the study beyond narrow economic confines, it traces the entanglement between moral sentiments and capitalism, examining both moral critiques and moral justifications. Company bankruptcies, systems of taxation, wealth, and the running of stock exchanges were attacked on moral grounds, while ideas of economic justice and the humanization of capitalism loomed large over moral critiques. Many movements, from antislavery to labour campaigns, were inspired by aspirations to improve capitalism and halt the moral decay that was felt to have affected large sections of society. This book questions how moral sentiments are defined and have changed over time, and how these relate to both capitalism and anti-capitalism. Covering a range of different social movements and ethical issues, the 13 chapters present a moral history of capitalism, understood not simply as an economic system but as an order that encompasses all areas of modern life.
Die deutschen Männer und ihre Feinde
Juden, Chaos, Weiber – überall Feinde, überall Angst. Carl Schmitt als Vertreter des Ordnungsdenkens des patriarchalischen Zeitalters, sein Fall als Muster einer antiliberalen, antiparlamentarischen und antifeministischen Mentalitätsgeschichte. Nicolaus Sombarts Analyse eines psychopathologischen Schemas, das bis heute weitergegeben wird, erweist sich als beeindruckend aktuell. Mit seiner umfangreichen Studie taucht Sombart hinab in die Gedankenwelt Carl Schmitts, den er seit seiner Kindheit sehr gut kannte. Er verfolgt kennzeichnende Seitenwege, offenbart Verbindungen, sich Wiederholendes, ständig Mitlaufendes, immer wieder Mitgedachtes während aller Lebensphasen des Staatsrechtlers....
Crisis
Notions of crisis have long charged the study of the European avant-garde and modernism, reflecting the often turbulent nature of their development. Throughout their history, the avant-garde and modernists have both confronted and instigated crises, be they economic or political, aesthetic or philosophical, collective or individual, local or global, short or perennial. The seventh volume in the series European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies addresses the myriad ways in which the avant-garde and modernism have responded and related to crisis from the late nineteenth to the twenty-first century. How have Europe’s avant-garde and modernist movements given aesthetic shape to their crisis-la...
Purchasing Power
Examines the relationship between money and power in modern Jewish history. -- Dust jacket.
