{"product_id":"mobile-modernity-9780231140126","title":"Mobile Modernity","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThough the history of the German railway system is often associated with the transportation of Jews to labor and death camps, this work looks instead to the completion of the first German railway lines and their role in remapping the cultural geography and intellectual history of Germany's Jews.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeautifully crafted... [Presner's] superbly grounded work engages its texts and its readers so well. -- Kevin S. Amidon German Studies Review highly successful, oftentimes brilliant, reconstruction of... German\/Jewish historical dialectic. Journal of Modern History\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments 1. Dialectics at a Standstill 2. Berlin and Delos Celan's No-Places and Heidegger's Homecomings: Philosophy and Poetry Out of Material History 3.Sicily, New York City, and the Baranovich Station German\/Jewish Subject Without a Nation: On the Meta-epistemology of Mobility and Mass Migration 4.The North Sea Jews on Ships; or, How Heine's Reisebilder Deconstruct Hegel's Philosophy of World History 5.Nuremburg-Furth-Palestine Some Assembly Required: Global Anxieties and Corporeal Fantasies of German\/Jewish Nationality 6.Auschwitz \"The Fabrication of Corpses\": Heidegger, Arendt, and the Modernity of Mass Death 7.Vienna-Rome-Prague-Antwerp-Paris The Railway Ruins of Modernity: Freud and Sebald on the Narration of German\/Jewish Remains Concluding Remarks Notes Index","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51358991450455,"sku":"9780231140126","price":49.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231140126.jpg?v=1754123132","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mobile-modernity-9780231140126","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}