Based on the conference "Violence in German literature, culture, and intellectual history, 1789-1938," at University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), Oct. 14-16, 2005
Includes bibliographical references and index
Illuminates the treatment of violence in the German cultural tradition between the French Revolution and the Holocaust and Second World War
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction. Violence, Culture, Aesthetics: Germany 1789-1938; I. The Other Side of Modernity: War and the French Revolution; II. Imagining the Primitive; the Return of the Repressed; III. Violence in the Age of Globalization; German Culture and Its Others; IV. Modernism, Modernization, and Representation; Index