The Proletarian Dream Socialism, Culture, and Emotion in Germany 1863-1933

identity discourse,recast emancipatorymovementsinindividual and, ultimately, affirmative terms.Heretreating emotions asaheuristi ...

as part cultural history,part culturaltheory,and partaseries of casestudies. The eighteen chapters in this book have been select ...

ways contradictory,always ambiguous–was expectedtoreconcile these differ- ences through the making of proletarian identification ...

on one side, and the alliances between communist internationalism and cultural nationalism, on the other.These would have includ ...

ist writingsthat established the world historical mission of the workingclass (chapters1and 2).Subsequent chapters follow the pe ...

class society andarepository and laboratory for all the emotions involved in the processofpolitical mobilization. As acultural h ...

the book’srelativel yshort chapters can be likened to fragments, snapshots, and excerpts–thatis, building blocks in an ongoingpr ...

such as the following:How did the emotional energies of choral singingpromote identification with the political demands of the w ...

emotion.Atthe same time, noterm captures betterthe profound differencebe- tween current concerns about the rise in inequality an ...

More specifically, the sheer productivity of the proletarian imaginary can be eval- uated onlybyrecognizingproletarian cultureas ...

gardes to its continuingdiminishment in the anti-aesthetic of much cultural theory today. Culture–defined,inthe narrow sense,ass ...

on Hobsbawm and Anderson that not onlyemphasize the workers’activecontri- bution to this process but also give afirst indication ...

spectivesonthese complicateddynamics and restore the aesthetic to its rightful place asakey category of cultural history and, by ...

can playanimportant role in reconstructing the historicalconfigurations of so- cialism and nationalism in the context of cultura ...

Christoph MartinWieland andJohann Gottfried Herder,who maybeevenmore importanttothe socialist claims on cultureand education tha ...

proved so importanttothe making of the proletarian dream, the samecan be concluded about the discourses of emotion, including th ...

that continue to expand the boundaries of the humanities–sometimesindia- logue with the life sciences.Aspart of the critical ter ...

standing emotional practices as culturalpracticesdoes not mean that they can be studied onlythrough, and in, language, as implie ...

genealogyofanger in the struggle for political control and measured the growing significanceofpublic emotions in modern mass soc ...

profound changes broughtabout by digital technologies and information archi- tectures and the highlymediated spectacles of publi ...