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GE 211 - Reading

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Seminar reading

Friedrich Schiller

Karl Marx

Friedrich Nietzsche

Georg Simmel

Sigmund Freud

  • Freud, Sigmund, Das Unbehagen in der Kultur, Frankfurt: Fischer, 2009

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Additional reading and secondary literature

(suggestions - for further reading see Library reading list)

Karl Marx

Friedrich Nietzsche

Georg Simmel

Sigmund Freud

Historical background

  • Berghahn, Volker Rolf. Imperial Germany, 1871–1914: Economy, Society, Culture, and Politics (2nd ed. 2005)

  • Blackbourn, David, The long nineteenth century: a history of Germany, 1780-1918 [electronic resource]. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

  • Blackbourn, David, History of Germany, 1780-1918: the long nineteenth century. Malden, Mass., Oxford: Blackwell Pub., 2003 (revised version of Blackbourn 1998).
  • Blackbourn, David and Geoff Eley, The peculiarities of German history: bourgeois society and politics in nineteenth-century Germany. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984.
    CLASS NO DD 203.B5.

  • Craig, Gordon Alexander, Germany, 1866-1945 [electronic resource]. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

  • Fulbrook, Mary, A Concise History of Germany [electronic resource]. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

  • Hamerow, Theodore S., Restoration, revolution, reaction: economics and politics in Germany, 1815-1871. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1958.
    CLASS NO HC285 .H36.

  • Hamerow, Theodore S. (ed.), The age of Bismarck: documents and interpretations. New York; London: Harper and Row, 1973.
    CLASS NO DD 223.H2.
    CLASS NO DD 218.2.H2.

  • Retallack, James, Imperial Germany, 1871–1918 [electronic resource], Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008
  • Retallack, James, Germany in the age of Kaiser Wilhelm II, London: Macmillan, 1996.
  • Sheehan, James J. (ed.), Imperial Germany. New York; London: F. Watts, 1976.
    CLASS NO DD 220.S4.
  • Sheehan, James J., German history, 1770-1866. Oxford: Clarendon, 1989.
    CLASS NO DD203 .S4.
  • Sheppard, Richard, "The Problematics of European Modernism", in Steve Giles (ed.), Theorizing modernism: essays in critical theory [electronic resource], London; New York: Routledge, 1993.