Legacies of Modernism (1403973237) MCBRIDE

Between 1890 and 1950 modernist art and culture set out to challenge century-old notions of the individual and the community, culture and politics, morality and freedom, placing into question the very foundations of Western civilization. The essays in this volume present a novel assessment of various manifestations of modernism in Germany and Scandinavia by posing the question of its critical and political impact beyond traditional polarities such as right vs. left, illiberalism vs. Enlightenment, apolitical vs. engaged. In drawing on a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, including literary studies, art history, film and visual studies, urban studies, musicology, political theory, and the history of science and technology, the essays in this volume reexamine modernism’s bold inquiry into areas such as the relation of art to technology and mass politics, the limits of liberal democracy, the reconceptualization of urban spaces, and the realignment of traditional art forms following the rise of new media such as film. The volume’s contributors share a belief in the timeliness of modernism’s critical impulse for a contemporary age confronted with ethical and political dilemmas that the modernists first articulated and to which they attempted to respond.

Patrizia C. McBride is Associate Professor of German at the University of Minnesota. Her fields of interest include European modernism, theories of modernity, and German and Austrian literature and culture. She is the author of The Void of Ethics, Robert Musil and the Experience of Modernity (2006) and of articles on J.M.R. Lenz, Adolf Loos, Hermann Broch, Walther Rathenau, and Kurt Schwitters.

Richard W. McCormick is Professor of German at the University of Minnesota, where his research and teaching are focused primarily on German cinema. He is the author of Politics of the Self: Feminism and the Postmodern in West German Literature and Film (1991) and Gender and Sexuality in Weimar Modernity: Film, Literature, and “New Objectivity” (Palgrave, 2001); he co-edited the anthologies Gender and German Cinema: Feminist Interventions (1993) and German Essays on Film (2004).

Monika Žagar is Associate Professor of Scandinavian at the University of Minnesota. Her Ph.D. in Scandinavian Studies is from the University of California, Berkeley, and she has published a number of articles on various authors as well as a book on Dag Solstad, Ideological Clowns: Dag Solstad - From Modernism to Politics (2002). She has served on the editorial board for the Encyclopedia of Contemporary Scandinavia and is currently writing a book on Knut HamsunBoilerplate (Logotype/URL)

“This excellent collection of essays provides a rich and complete panorama of the main dimensions in which modernism, as an epochal cultural phenomenon, received, extended, but also undermined the intellectual tradition of modernity. It is unusual to find the cultural legacy of a period addressed from so many angles and with such depth and insight.”--Ernesto Laclau, Distinguished Professor of Humanities and Rhetorical Studies, Northwestern University

Introduction: The Future’s Past: Modernism, Critique, and the Political--Patrizia C. McBride * Part I: High, Low, and Other: The Politics of Music * Hans Pfitzner and the Anxiety of Nostalgic Modernism--Marc A. Weiner * Gustav Mahler Visits Amsterdam--Carl Niekerk * Part II: Modernism/ Antimodernism, Race and Eugenics in Scandinavia * The Resistance to Modernism in Karl Gjellerup's Germanernes Lærling (1882)--Paul Houe * Knut Hamsun’s “White Negro” from Ringen Sluttet (1936) or the Politics of Race--Monika Zagar * Eugenics and the Role of Science: The Scandinavian Case--Nils Roll-Hansen * Part III: Science, Technology, and German Modernism * Reactionary Engineers? Technocracy and the Kulturfaktor Technik in Weimar--Andreas Michel * The Uncultured Eye: Developments in the Life Sciences in the Context of German Modernisms--Thomas O. Haakenson Part IV: Architecture and Urban Planning in Weimar Modernity * Imagining the New Berlin: Modernism, Mass Utopia, and the Architectural Avant-garde--Sabine Hake * Re-Building Babel: Urban Regeneration in the Modern/Postmodern Age--Janet Ward * Part V: The Politics of Visual Culture: Weimar, Exile, and Postwar * Politicizing Painting: The Case of New Objectivity--Maria Makela * Modernism from Weimar to Hollywood: Expressionism/New Objectivity/Noir?--Richard W. McCormick * Clement Greenberg and the Postwar Modernist Canon: Minimizing the Role of Germany and Northern Europe--Matthew Rohn * Part VI: The Politics of Visual Culture in the Third Reich * Framing Sight: Modernism and Nazi Visual Culture--Lutz Koepnick * A Woman Beside Herself: Art and its Other in Nazi Movies--Linda Schulte-Sasse * Part VII: Modernist Politics Now: Critiques of Liberalism * The Stakes of the Political According to Carl Schmitt--Chantal Mouffe * Sovereignty and Its Discontents--William Rasch

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