Culture and inflation in Weimar Germany
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Culture and inflation in Weimar Germany
（Weimar and now : German cultural criticism / Martin Jay and Anton Kaes, general editors, 26）
University of California Press, c2001
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Bibliography: p. 251-272
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
For many Germans the hyperinflation of 1922 to 1923 was one of the most decisive experiences of the twentieth century. In his original and authoritative study, Bernd Widdig investigates the effects of that inflation on German culture during the Weimar Republic. He argues that inflation, with its dynamics of massification, devaluation, and the rapid circulation of money, is an integral part of modern culture and intensifies and condenses the experience of modernity in a traumatic way.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Money Matters: Culture and Inflation PART ONE: History and Experience 2. Flirting with Disaster: The German Inflation, 1914-1923 3. Daily Explosions: Canetti's Inflation PART TWO: Money 4. Under the Sign of Zero: Money and Inflation PART THREE: Figures 5. Uncanny Encounters: Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler 6. Visions of Work: Hugo Stinnes and His Doubles PART FOUR: Accounts 7. Cultural Capital in Decline: Inflation and the Distress of Intellectuals 8. Witches Dancing: Gender and Inflation PART FIVE: Epilogue 9. Aftershocks: Inflation, National Socialism, and Beyond Notes Bibliography Index
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