Technology and Nature: From Döblin’s Berge Meere und Giganten to a Philosophy of Nature

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Abbreviations and Translations of Titles ix
5. Works by Alfred Döblin xiii
6. Introduction 1
7. Early Works
8. Döblin’s Early Collection of Stories, Die Ermordung einer Butterblume: Toward a Modernist Aesthetic 23
9. The Advent of Döblinism: Die drei Sprünge des Wang-lun and Wadzeks Kampf mit der Dampfturbine 55
10. Works of the Weimar Period
11. The Fall of Wallenstein, or the Collapse of Narration? The Paradox of Epic Intensity in Döblin’s Wallenstein 75
12. Technology and Nature: From Döblin’s Berge Meere und Giganten to a Philosophy of Nature 93
13. “Arzt und Dichter”: Döblin’s Medical, Psychiatric, and Psychoanalytical Work 111
14. Döblin’s Berlin: The Story of Franz Biberkopf 141
15. Döblin’s Engagement with the New Media: Film, Radio and Photography 161
16. Döblin’s Political Writings during the Weimar Republic 183
17. Exile and Return to Europe
18. Döblin, the Critic of Western Civilization: The Amazon Trilogy 193
19. Döblin’s November 1918 215
20. Döblin and Judaism 233
21. Robinson the Castaway: Döblin’s Christian Faith as Reflected in His Autobiography Schicksalsreise and His Religious Dialogues Der unsterbliche Mensch and Der Kampf mit dem Engel 247
22. The Tragedy of Truth: Döblin’s Novel Hamlet oder Die lange Nacht nimmt ein Ende 271
23. Bibliography 291
24. Notes on the Contributors 299
25. Index 301