Mobile Modernity: Germans, Jews, Trains

Todd Presner

April, 2007
Cloth, 368 pages, 29 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-14012-6
$46.50 / £27.50

Acknowledgments

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-Fürth-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

Related Subjects

• European History
• Judaism
• Literary Criticism and Theory

Series

• Cultures of History

About the Author

Todd Samuel Presner is an associate professor of Germanic languages and Jewish studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also the author of Muscular Judaism: The Jewish Body and the Politics of Regeneration. His recent articles have appeared in PMLA, Modernism/Modernity, German Politics and Society, Telos, and Criticism, and he has received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

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