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ISBN: 0691239517 Year: 2022 Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press,
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"This book is the third in a trilogy that looks at the cultural history of Prague in order to tell the larger story of competing notions of European modernity-Reformation and Counter-Reformation, empire and nation, fascism and democracy-as they all played out on a single stage. This volume begins in 1938, when Czechoslovakia was dismembered by the Munich agreement and shortly before the invasion of the Third Reich, and it runs until the present day, when liberal democracy appears to be giving way to right-wing populism (as in much of the world). Like the previous volumes in the series, it sees Prague as a palimpsest of the cultures that overtook it-cultures that aimed to impose their own visions of modernity on the city. In this book, Sayer charts three major "modernities:" the Third Reich's brutal totalitarianism, the shifting face of Soviet communism, and the supposed freedoms of Western capitalist democracy. In Sayer's reading, the Nazis, Soviets, and Western democrats each believed that Prague had reached the end of history, that it had achieved "the final form of human government" (in Fukuyama's words). All were proved spectacularly wrong. As these political movements disintegrated, they returned the city to a state of banal surreality that Czech dissidents in the 1960s dubbed Absurdistan. Putting the notion of Absurdistan at the center of his story, Sayer engages with artists, creators and the things they produced, which unsparingly revealed the absurdity of the "modern" world and its notions of progress. He explores the work of Milan Kundera, Miloš Forman, Václav Havel, and many others lesser known in the Anglophone world. He examines the tradition of vulgar absurdist comedy beginning with Kafka, and he shows how Prague's cultural products have been marked by persistent moral ambiguity, or in Kundera's words, "the intoxicating relativity of human things," since the mid-century. The overarching argument of this book is that, by looking to Prague's cultural history, we can see that modernity has never been a single or stable notion, and as different ideologies of modernity have come head-to-head, they have produced a rich culture of ambiguity and absurdity. We published the first two books in the trilogy, The Coasts of Bohemia: A Czech History (1998), which spanned the 18th to the turn of the 20th century, and Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century (2013), which looked at modernism and revolutionary thinking in Prague in the first half of the 20th century. Both books did well, and Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century won the prestigious George L. Mosse Prize for European cultural and intellectual history from the American Historical Association"--
Prague (Czech Republic) --- Civilization --- 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état. --- Absurdistan. --- Adolf Eichmann. --- Adolf Hitler. --- Allen Ginsberg. --- Anschluss. --- Arid. --- Bankruptcy. --- Bohumil Hrabal. --- Byzantine Empire. --- Cactus. --- Central Committee. --- Charles Darwin. --- Charter 77. --- Closely Watched Trains. --- Colonization. --- Conrad Veidt. --- Constantinople. --- Czechoslovak Hockey Riots. --- Czechoslovakia. --- Czechs. --- Diego Rivera. --- Distant Journey. --- Dora Diamant. --- Ecology. --- Economics. --- Egon Bondy. --- El Niño–Southern Oscillation. --- Endemism. --- Epiphyte. --- Essay. --- Franz Kafka. --- Franz Werfel. --- Geology. --- Germans. --- Gestapo. --- Giant tortoise. --- Gulag. --- Hadrian. --- Heinrich Himmler. --- Heinrich Mann. --- Honza. --- Hussites. --- Iconoclasm. --- Illustration. --- International Students' Day. --- Jan Masaryk. --- Jan Palach. --- Jews. --- Joseph Stalin. --- Karel Gott. --- Karel Teige. --- Karl Marx. --- Kitsch. --- Klement Gottwald. --- Le Corbusier. --- Lecture. --- Libri Carolini. --- Lidice. --- Mangrove. --- Max Brod. --- Milan Kundera. --- Milton Friedman. --- Modernity. --- Money laundering. --- Nazi Party. --- Nazism. --- Newspaper. --- Nikephoros (Caesar). --- Ocean current. --- On the Origin of Species. --- Opuntia. --- Pavel Kohout. --- Physiocracy. --- Poetry. --- Politics. --- Prague Spring. --- Presidium. --- Reinhard Heydrich. --- Samizdat. --- Scalesia. --- Slavery. --- Slovakia. --- Socialist realism. --- South America. --- Soviet Union. --- Sudeten Germans. --- Surrealism. --- Tariff. --- The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. --- The Other Hand. --- The Power of the Powerless. --- The Theory of Moral Sentiments. --- The Voyage of the Beagle. --- The Wealth of Nations. --- V. --- Wealth. --- Wenceslas Square. --- World War II. --- Writing.
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ISBN: 1400838371 Year: 2011 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press,
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"A vivid sense of strangeness": Einstein's path to the Zionist movement -- A different kind of nationalism: Einstein's induction and mobilization into the Zionist movement -- The "prize-winning ox" in "Dollaria": Einstein's fundraising trip to the United States in 1921 -- Secular pilgrim or Zionist tourist?: Einstein's tour of Palestine in 1923 -- The "botched university": Einstein's involvement in the Hebrew University, 1924-1929 -- "A genuine symbiosis": Einstein on the 1929 clashes in Palestine -- The "bug-infested house": Einstein's involvement in the Hebrew University, 1930-1933.
Zionisme. --- Kwantummechanica. --- Zionism. --- Einstein, Albert, --- Palestina. --- Israël (staat) --- Jews --- Zionist movement --- Jewish nationalism --- Zionism --- Politics and government --- Restoration --- Israel --- Eretz Israel --- Erets Israel --- Erets Yiśraʼel --- Filasṭīn --- Palesṭin --- Erez Jisrael --- Paleśtinah --- Memshelet Paleśtinah --- Palestina --- Palästina --- Falastīn --- Political and social views. --- Einstein, Albert --- Aiyinsitan, Abote, --- Aĭnshtaĭn, Albert, --- Ainshutain, A, --- Ain̲sṭain̲, Ālparṭ, --- Ainsṭāina, Albarṭa, --- Ajnštajn, Albert, --- Āynishtayn, --- Aynshtayn, Albert, --- Eĭnshteĭn, Alʹbert, --- אינשטין, אלברט, --- איינשטיין --- איינשטיין, אלבערט, --- איינשטיין, אלברט --- איינשטיין, אלברט, --- Aynştayn, Elbêrt, --- Īnshtīn, --- Aynîştayn, --- Aiyinsitan, --- 愛因斯坦, --- 爱因斯坦, --- Abraham Flexner. --- Abraham Fraenkel. --- Ahad Ha'am. --- Albert Einstein Archives. --- Albert Einstein. --- Alfred Dreyfus. --- Aliyah. --- American Schools of Oriental Research. --- Anti-Zionism. --- Arab–Israeli conflict. --- Arthur Ruppin. --- Axis powers. --- Balfour Declaration. --- Berliner Tageblatt. --- Blood libel. --- Chaim Weizmann. --- Chief Rabbi. --- Churchill White Paper. --- Cultural Zionism. --- Culture and Society. --- Cyrus Adler. --- Disenchantment. --- Dora Diamant. --- Einstein Papers Project. --- Einstein family. --- Eliezer Ben-Yehuda. --- Emil Grunzweig. --- Ernest Rutherford. --- Ernest Solvay. --- Felix Ehrenhaft. --- First Intifada. --- Franz Kafka. --- Fritz Haber. --- George Mosse. --- German model. --- Gustav Landauer. --- Habilitation. --- Haredi Judaism. --- Harvard University. --- Hebrew University of Jerusalem. --- Hebrew labor. --- His Family. --- Hugo Haase. --- Independent People. --- Jehuda Reinharz. --- Jewish Underground. --- Jewish culture. --- Jewish diaspora. --- Jewish identity. --- Jews. --- Jingoism. --- Judaism. --- Kapp Putsch. --- Kurt Blumenfeld. --- Kurt Hiller. --- Leon Simon (Zionist). --- Leon Uris. --- Martin Buber. --- Maurice Solovine. --- Max Brod. --- Max Planck. --- Middle East. --- Moshe Zimmermann. --- Mount Scopus. --- Nahum Sokolow. --- Nobel Prize. --- Norman Bentwich. --- On the Eve. --- Orientalism. --- Orthodox Judaism. --- Pacifism. --- Pasteur Institute. --- Paul Ehrenfest. --- Paul Warburg. --- Peace Now. --- Peaceful coexistence. --- Police action. --- Political machine. --- Post-Zionism. --- Protectionism. --- Prussian Academy of Sciences. --- Religious antisemitism. --- Revisionist Zionism. --- Safed. --- Secularism. --- Social Darwinism. --- Solvay Conference. --- The Other Hand. --- The Rothschilds (musical). --- United Jewish Appeal. --- Walter Benjamin. --- Walther Nernst. --- Warfare. --- Weimar Republic. --- Weizmann. --- West Jerusalem. --- Wilhelm Ostwald. --- Wissenschaft des Judentums. --- Zionist Organization of America.
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