From War Economy to “New Economy”: World War I and the Conservative Debate about the ‘other’ Modernity in Germany

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Introduction: Modernity and Violence: Observations Concerning a Contradictory Relationship 1
3. Violence and Modernity
4. The Great War and the Persistence of Tradition: Languages of Grief, Bereavement and Mourning 33
5. Starting from Scratch: Concepts of Order in No Man’s Land 46
6. The Therapeutic Response: Continuities from World War One to National Socialism 65
7. From War Economy to “New Economy”: World War I and the Conservative Debate about the ‘other’ Modernity in Germany 77
8. Codes of War and Violence
9. Some Lessons of the War: The Discourse on the Propaganda and Public Opinion in Germany in the 1920s 99
10. Blitzkrieg: “God Stinnes” or the Depoliticization of the Sublime 119
11. The fiftieth Anniversary of the Allied Air Raids on Dresden: A Half Century of Literature and History Writing 134
12. Sexy Nazis and Daddy’s Girls: Fascism and Sexuality in Film and Video since the 1970s 148
13. Bodies, Souls and Modern Warfare
14. Aesculap in the Trenches: Aspects of German Medicine in the First World War 177
15. The Failure of Love: A Lesser Theory of the Great War 194
16. Benn’s Body. Masculine Aesthetics and Reproduction in Gottfried Benn’s Essays 213
17. Women in the Military and the Cult of Masculinity 227
18. Artistic and Literary Representations of Modern Warfare
19. “A Murderous Carnival”: German Artists in the First World War 241
20. Arnold Zweig’s War Novellas of 1914 and their Versions: Literature, Modernity and the Demands of the Day 277
21. War and Novel: Alfred Döblin’s “Wallenstein” and “November 1918” 290
22. Violent Orders in Robert Musil’s “Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften” and Thomas Bernhard’s “Kalkwerk” 300
23. “Les peuples meurent, pour que Dieu vive”: Gertrud Kolmar’s Consecration of the Protagonists in the Drama of the French Revolution 317
24. Laws of War and Revolution: Violence in Heiner Müller’s Work 343
25. Bibliography 359
26. List of Illustrations 402
27. Notes on Contributors 403
28. Index 408
29. Backmatter 416