Mobile modernity : Germans, Jews, trains / Todd Samuel Presner.
Mobile modernity : Germans, Jews, trains / Todd Samuel Presner.
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New York : Columbia University Press, c2007.
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N303.4832/ 10
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English
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xi, 368 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. Dialectics at a standstill -- 2. Berlin and Delos : Celan's no-places and Heidegger's homecomings : philosophy and poetry out of material history -- 3. Sicily, New York City, and the Baranovich Station : German/Jewish subject without a nation : on the meta-epistemology of mobility and mass migrat...
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New York : Columbia University Press, c2007.
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New York (State)
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c2007.
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"Treating the German railway as both an iconic symbol of modernity and a crucial social, technological, and political force, Presner advances a groundbreaking interpretation of the ways in which mobility is inextricably linked to German and Jewish visions of modernity. Moving beyond the tired model of a failed German-Jewish dialogue, Presner emphas...
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Mobile modernity : Germans, Jews, trains / Todd Samuel Presner.
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Cultures of history.
Cultures of history.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-346) and index.
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c2007.
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N303.4832/ 10
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9780231511582 (ebook)
0231140126 (alk. paper)
9780231140126 (alk. paper)
0231511582 (ebook)
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303.48320943
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991022879399702626
