Antifascist Humanism and the Politics of Cultural Renewal in Germany

ISBN-13: 9781107085435 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 216 str.

California) Agocs Andreas (University of the Pacific

Opis

This study traces German traditions of cultural renewal from their beginnings in antifascist activism to their failure in the emerging Cold War.

Recenzje

'… Andreas Agocs has written an empirically focused, analytically wide-ranging study of the Cultural League for the Democratic Renewal of Germany (Kulturbund), a self-consciously antifascist organization that surfaced amid the ruins of Nazism in 1945.' Sean A. Forner, The American Historical Review

Spis treści

Introduction: antifascist humanism and the dual legacies of Weimar; Part I. Defending the 'Other Germany': 1. The humanist front: antifascism and culture wars, 1934–9; 2. 'Otra Alemanias': antifascist humanism in the diasporam, 1939–44; 3. The 'other Germany' from below: antifascist committees and national renewal in 1945; Part II. Contesting 'Other Germanies': 4. Antifascism as renewal and restoration: the cultural League for the democratic renewal of Germany, 1945–6; 5. Humanism with a socialist face: Sovietization and 'ideological coordination' of the Kulturbund, 1946–7; 6. The limits of humanism: cultural renewal and the outbreak of the Cold War, 1947–8; 7. Mass organization and memory: antifascist humanism in divided Germany, 1948 and beyond; Conclusion: from the Saar to Salamis.