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

cliché of cultural studies and identity politics. Even more important, recent diag- noses of the decline of civilsociety have co ...

Rancière’spolemical intervention was directed against the dreams of classstrug- gle that prompted leftist intellectuals duringth ...

made great personal sacrificesbecause of their political commitments;these in- cluded experiencesofcensorship and vilification, ...

dream and its forms of culturalcontact and symbolic communication. The names of first readers on the flyleavesand their extensiv ...

covered by this distance that the proletarian dream can shed light on the con- temporary politics of emotion–in what prematurely ...

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Chapter 1 The Threatofthe Proletariat and the Discourse of the Masses Icall himaproletarian whose parents neglected him, did not ...

JuliusWerner describes the same phenomenon withastrong sense of foreboding that implies acceptance of the inevitability of drama ...

urgent social problems of his time. In fact,LeBon’sdescription of socialism as a mass movement containsin nucethe main elements ...

form. By contrast, Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl advancedauniquelyGerman view of society as community that,basedonethnography(Volkskund ...

ity had been preserved in the country’ssocial,economic, and legal structures. Under these circumstances,the workers’ deep sense ...

argued for extensive reforms as the best defense against what he termed theoret- ical and applied socialism. Along similar lines ...

ters,burghers,and peasants, who declare themselvestobethe‘true’people, and who want to dissolve all naturallydevelopedestates in ...

tarian originateinpeasant culture that has been the focus of ethnographyoris he an entirelynew type? Is his life completelychang ...

conditions of its emergence,mass discourse invariablyconstitutes the masses as the abject other of an ideal society alternatelyc ...

be read in dialogue with similar attemptsacross Europe to theorize the modern massesinthe ageofrevolutions, from GabrielTarde’sw ...

he calls full-blooded proletarians (Vollblutproletarier). References to their separa- tion from nature, home, family, and father ...

tate, class, and stratum as different historicalmanifestations ofalonger process thereafter known as social differentiation.¹⁹Mo ...

ographyofthe modern massescontinuedto reproduce the conceptual slippage between“mass”and“class”even in the more methodical studi ...