Mobile modernity : Germans, Jews, trains /
Presner, Todd Samuel.
New York ; Chichester : Columbia University Press,
c2007.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-346) and index.
Dialectics at a standstill -- Berlin and Delos : Celan's no-places and Heidegger's homecomings : philosophy and poetry out of material history -- Sicily, New York City, and the Baranovich station : German/Jewish subject without a nation : on the meta-epistemology of mobility and mass-migration -- The North Sea : Jews on ships : or, how Heine's Reisebilder deconstruct Hegel's philosophy of world history -- Nuremburg-Fürth-Palestine : some assembly required : global anxieties and corporeal fantasies of German/Jewish nationality -- Auschwitz : "the fabrication of corpses" : Heidegger, Arendt, and the modernity of mass death -- Vienna-Rome-Prague-Antwerp-Paris : the railway ruins of modernity : Freud and Sebald on the narration of German/Jewish remains.
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Technology
Technology and civilization.