War, Violence and the Modern Condition

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Frontmatter -- Introduction: Modernity and Violence: Observations Concerning a Contradictory Relationship -- Violence and Modernity -- The Great War and the Persistence of Tradition: Languages of Grief, Bereavement and Mourning -- Starting from Scratch: Concepts of Order in No Man s Land -- The Therapeutic Response: Continuities from World War One to National Socialism -- From War Economy to New Economy : World War I and the Conservative Debate about the `other Modernity in Germany -- Codes of War and Violence -- Some Lessons of the War: The Discourse on the Propaganda and Public Opinion in Germany in the 1920s -- Blitzkrieg: God Stinnes or the Depoliticization of the Sublime -- The fiftieth Anniversary of the Allied Air Raids on Dresden: A Half Century of Literature and History Writing -- Sexy Nazis and Daddy s Girls: Fascism and Sexuality in Film and Video since the 1970s -- Bodies, Souls and Modern Warfare -- Aesculap in the Trenches: Aspects of German Medicine in the First World War -- The Failure of Love: A Lesser Theory of the Great War -- Benn s Body. Masculine Aesthetics and Reproduction in Gottfried Benn s Essays -- Women in the Military and the Cult of Masculinity -- Artistic and Literary Representations of Modern Warfare -- A Murderous Carnival : German Artists in the First World War -- Arnold Zweig s War Novellas of 1914 and their Versions: Literature, Modernity and the Demands of the Day -- War and Novel: Alfred Döblin s Wallenstein and November 1918 -- Violent Orders in Robert Musil s Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften and Thomas Bernhard s Kalkwerk -- Les peuples meurent, pour que Dieu vive : Gertrud Kolmar s Consecration of the Protagonists in the Drama of the French Revolution -- Laws of War and Revolution: Violence in Heiner Müller s Work -- Bibliography -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- Backmatter