The power of intellectuals in contemporary Germany
By: edited by Michael Geyer
Contributors: Geyer, Michael, 1947-
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 459
Subjects: Intellectuals -- Germany, East
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-443) and index
Table of contents: title: An attempt at an exemplary report on H. / Dietrich Hohmann; title: German intellectuals: public roles and the rise of the therapeutic / Frank Trommler; title: The inconsequence of doubt: intellectuals and the discourse on socialist unity / Dorothea Dornhof; title: The German Democratic Republic as a "reading nation": utopia, planning, reality, and ideology / Simone Barck, Martina Langermann, and Siegfried Lokatis; title: La guerre est finie: new waves, historical contingency, and the GDR "Rabbit films" / Katie Trumpener; title: Language and power / David Bathrick; title: Syntax of surveillance: languages of silence and solidarity / Patricia Anne Simpson; title: Wir treten aus unseren Rollen heraus: theater intellectuals and public spheres / Loren Kruger; title: Is it a mistake to think that the dead are dead: obituary for Heiner Müller / Alexander Kluge; title: The consequences of unification according to H. / Dietrich Hohmann; title: Soundtracks: GDR music from "revolution" to "reunification" / Patricia Anne Simpson; title: Media publics in the GDR: unification and the transformation of the media, 1989-1991 / Andreas Graf; title: The double disappointment: revolution, unification, and German intellectuals / Konrad Jarausch; title: Becoming normal, modern, and German (again?) / Mitchell G. Ash; title: Nation, race, and immigration: German identities after unification / Andreas Huyssen; title: Education after the Cold War: remembrance, repetition, and right-wing violence / John Borneman; title: The long good-bye: German culture wars in the nineties / Michael Geyer; title: The moment of tragic recognition with a happy ending / Alexander Kluge