...This chapter takes a look at Erich Fromm’s early life. Fromm was born in Frankfurt at the start of the twentieth century. At the time, Frankfurt was the financial capital of Germany. Jews had yet to be fully assimilated into middle-class culture. The city resonated deeply with Fromm for much of his...

..., including those on individuation and freedom, self-love and selfishness, monopoly capitalism, Nazi Germany and sadomasochism, and social character. authoritarianism Columbia University Culture and Personality movement Dunham Katherine Escape from Freedom Fromm Fromm Erich affiliations Fromm Erich...

...This Coda summarizes the book's main themes and presents some final thoughts. This book has engaged critically with the idea and image of the masses in interwar European culture, focusing on Germany and Austria. It argues that “the masses” was an organizing term for so many cultural, intellectual...

... (hESCs). She wants to understand why Germany does not permit scientists to destroy embryos in order to derive stem cells. Here she and Baum discuss the sharp legal and moral divisions over the use of hESCs; Germany's history of eugenics; the ethical dimensions of destroying human embryos; whether...

... aftermath of World War II. Despite the consolidation of Adolf Hitler's rule in the mid-1930s, the persecution and elimination of any political opposition, increasing anti-Semitism, Krystalnacht, the Holocaust, and World War II, Furtwängler not only stayed in Germany but held various prominent positions...

...This chapter examines how Friedrich Nietzsche came to be read as an “existentialist” in postwar Germany and how his “existential” image became so popular in the United States and France. Focusing on the interpretations of Karl Löwith, Karl Jaspers, and Martin Heidegger, it argues that Nietzsche...

...This chapter examines how the militant body has been articulated and disciplined in culture and media in postwar Germany by taking up representations of Ulrike Meinhof's body, which was found hanging from the window grillwork in Stammheim Prison on May 9, 1976. More specifically, it compares...

...This chapter focuses on Jean Luc-Godard's JLG/JLG: Self-portrait in December (1994), Germany Year 90 Nine Zero (1991), and Film Socialisme (2010). In JLG/JLG, Godard shows that morality is the horizon of life by which it is defined...

... traditions, it is mainly found overseas wherever there are American expatriates, the American military, and locals who deal with them. Germany, which is top-heavy with U.S. military bases, is the number two importer of U.S. peanut butter. Of people in India who eat peanut butter, 75 percent are from...

... sociology flâneur Flaubert Gustave Hamsun Knut nationalism revolution totalitarianism self representation Rancière Jacques workers film Marxism mass media Soviet Union Three penny Opera The Brecht Weimar modernity Baudrillard Jean Weimar Republic Germany Ortega y Gasset José Tocqueville...

...Fig 55. The opening credits of Too Small for Such a Big War This chapter focuses on Romanian filmmaker Radu Gabrea, whose exilic multi-layered career as an émigré in Germany, and later on his return to post-totalitarian Romania, has resulted in some very challenging creative...

...This chapter examines the international crises that Dwight D. Eisenhower had to deal with during his final years as president of the United States. Eisenhower hoped for an arms control agreement with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, but it remained unfulfilled. Confrontation over Germany escalated...

...This book explores gender-related questions about the Red Army Faction (RAF), a Far Left militant group that was masterminded by women and terrorized West Germany from the 1970s to the 1990s. It revisits the debates about the aestheticization of politics in relation to critical theory and German...

...This chapter traces the development of the armed struggle in Germany after World War II, especially the “red decade” that spanned from the public protests of the late 1960s to the events of 1977. It begins with an overview of the Red Army Faction's (RAF) origins and the factors that precipitated...

...This chapter examines the Red Army Faction's (RAF) ties to the Situationist International (SI), the Paris-based group of artists and activists led by Guy Debord. More specifically, it considers the points of contact between the SI and the Far Left in Germany, as well as the major differences...

...The case of Germany. The chapter describes how the idea of national income accounting was taken up in Germany, how the Nazis had nothing similar to GDP for their own war planning purposes and how the American occupational forces calculated the first German GDP - and later forced the Germans...

...This chapter provides a detailed analysis of the history of the German jihadist community, highlighting continuities and changes between the first Hamburg cell—which provided three of the four pilots for the September 11 attacks—and the travel groups who, since 2006, have been leaving Germany...

... of suicide bombings in Uzbekistan and Afghanistan, the latter mission featuring the “first German suicide bomber” among its ranks—Cüneyt Çiftçi. Despite setbacks in logistics and organization, the IJU was able to rise to international prominence and attempt attacks on Germany, though it eventually fell...

...This introductory chapter pieces together some of the author's excavated letters written by his grandparents to provide the family background of his father, René Guénoun. At the early age of three, René's father, a French citizen, was sent to Belgium to the fight in the war against Germany...

...This chapter narrates an anecdote of René Guénoun following the war against Germany. When war was declared, Syria and Lebanon became French mandates for twenty years, and René was sent in Damascus to serve the military. However, after the war, few isolated officers attempted a coup, in which René...