Beyond the Conceivable: Studies on Germany, Nazism, and the Holocaust (Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: May 1, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780520213456
Subjects: European history: Second World War; Jewish studies; The Holocaust; 20th century; History and criticism; Jewish Holocaust; History; History - General History; History: World; Germany; Holocaust; History / Germany; Politics and government; 1918-1933; Causes; Historiography; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Personal narratives
First sentence: Nowadays, whenever the concept of the state of emergency comes into a discussion of the Weimar Republic's constitution, Carl Schmitt immediately springs to mind, almost as if in a Pavlovian reaction: the thinker or the ogre, depending on one's point of view.