TY  - BOOK
AU  - Föllmer, Moritz
PY  - 2013
DA  - 2013//
TI  - Individuality and modernity in Berlin: self and society from Weimar to the Wall
T3  - New studies in European history
ET  - 1. publ.
PB  - Cambridge Univ. Press
CY  - Cambridge [u.a.]
KW  - Individuality
KW  - Germany
KW  - Berlin
KW  - History
KW  - Self
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Risk
KW  - Agent (Philosophy)
KW  - Social isolation
KW  - City and town life
KW  - Social change
KW  - Politics and culture
KW  - Geschichte 1928-1961
KW  - Alltag
KW  - Gesellschaft
KW  - Individualität
KW  - Berlin (Germany)
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Social life and customs
AB  - "Moritz Föllmer traces the history of individuality in Berlin from the late 1920s to the construction of the Berlin Wall in August 1961. The demand to be recognised as an individual was central to metropolitan society, as were the spectres of risk, isolation and loss of agency. This was true under all five regimes of the period, through economic depression, war, occupation and reconstruction. The quest for individuality could put democracy under pressure, as in the Weimar years, and could be satisfied by a dictatorship, as was the case in the Third Reich. It was only in the course of the 1950s, when liberal democracy was able to offer superior opportunities for consumerism, that individuality finally claimed the mantle. Individuality and Modernity in Berlin proposes a fresh perspective on twentieth-century Berlin that will engage readers with an interest in the German metropolis as well as European urban history more broadly"--
SN  - 9781107030985
LA  - English
N1  - Moritz Föllmer
ID  - 728412381
ER  -