Bernd Hüppauf 
War, Violence and the Modern Condition [PDF ebook] 

Frontmatter — Introduction: Modernity and Violence: Observations Concerning a Contradictory Relationship — Violence and Modernity — The Great War and the Persistence of Tradition: Languages of Grief, Bereavement and Mourning — Starting from Scratch: Concepts of Order in No Man’s Land — The Therapeutic Response: Continuities from World War One to National Socialism — From War Economy to “New Economy”: World War I and the Conservative Debate about the ‘other’ Modernity in Germany — Codes of War and Violence — Some Lessons of the War: The Discourse on the Propaganda and Public Opinion in Germany in the 1920s — Blitzkrieg: “God Stinnes” or the Depoliticization of the Sublime — The fiftieth Anniversary of the Allied Air Raids on Dresden: A Half Century of Literature and History Writing — Sexy Nazis and Daddy’s Girls: Fascism and Sexuality in Film and Video since the 1970s — Bodies, Souls and Modern Warfare — Aesculap in the Trenches: Aspects of German Medicine in the First World War — The Failure of Love: A Lesser Theory of the Great War — Benn’s Body. Masculine Aesthetics and Reproduction in Gottfried Benn’s Essays — Women in the Military and the Cult of Masculinity — Artistic and Literary Representations of Modern Warfare — “A Murderous Carnival”: German Artists in the First World War — Arnold Zweig’s War Novellas of 1914 and their Versions: Literature, Modernity and the Demands of the Day — War and Novel: Alfred Döblin’s “Wallenstein” and “November 1918” — Violent Orders in Robert Musil’s “Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften” and Thomas Bernhard’s “Kalkwerk” — “Les peuples meurent, pour que Dieu vive”: Gertrud Kolmar’s Consecration of the Protagonists in the Drama of the French Revolution — Laws of War and Revolution: Violence in Heiner Müller’s Work — Bibliography — List of Illustrations — Notes on Contributors — Index — Backmatter