TY - BOOK ID - 85463554 TI - Antifascist humanism and the politics of cultural renewal in Germany PY - 2017 SN - 1108228135 1108229298 1108229522 1108229751 1108230903 1316084108 1108229980 1107085438 1108707696 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Exiles KW - Humanism KW - Anti-fascist movements KW - Anti-fascist resistance KW - Underground, Anti-fascist KW - Fascism KW - Philosophy KW - Classical education KW - Classical philology KW - Philosophical anthropology KW - Renaissance KW - Persons KW - Aliens KW - Deportees KW - Refugees KW - Political activity KW - History KW - Political aspects KW - Kulturbund zur Demokratischen Erneuerung Deutschlands KW - Cultural League for the Democratic Renewal of Germany KW - Deutscher Kulturbund KW - History. KW - Germany KW - Third Reich, 1933-1945 KW - Politics and government KW - Cultural policy. KW - Intellectual life KW - Nationalism KW - Antifascist movements KW - Social movements UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85463554 AB - Antifascism is usually described as either a political ideology of activists and intellectuals confronting the dictatorships of Hitler and Mussolini, or as a cynical tool that justified the Stalinist expansion of communism in Europe. Andreas Agocs widens our understanding of antifascism by placing it in the context of twentieth-century movements of 'cultural renewal'. He explores the concept of 'antifascist humanism', the attempt by communist and liberal intellectuals and artists to heal the divisions of Nazism by reviving the 'other Germany' of classical Weimar. This project took intellectual shape in German exile communities in Europe and Latin America during World War II and found its institutional embodiment in the Cultural League for Democratic Renewal in Soviet-occupied Berlin in 1945. During the emerging Cold War, antifascist humanism's uneasy blend of twentieth-century mass politics and cultural nationalism became the focal point of new divisions in occupied Germany and the early German Democratic Republic. This study traces German traditions of cultural renewal from their beginnings in antifascist activism to their failure in the emerging Cold War. ER -