War, Violence and the Modern Condition -

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Frontmatter -- Introduction: Modernity and Violence: Observations Concerning a Contradictory Relationship -- Violence and Modernity -- The Great War and the Persistence of Tradition: Languages of Grief, Bereavement and Mourning -- Starting from Scratch: Concepts of Order in No Man?s Land -- The Therapeutic Response: Continuities from World War One to National Socialism -- From War Economy to ?New Economy?: World War I and the Conservative Debate about the `other? Modernity in Germany -- Codes of War and Violence -- Some Lessons of the War: The Discourse on the Propaganda and Public Opinion in Germany in the 1920s -- Blitzkrieg: ?God Stinnes? or the Depoliticization of the Sublime -- The fiftieth Anniversary of the Allied Air Raids on Dresden: A Half Century of Literature and History Writing -- Sexy Nazis and Daddy?s Girls: Fascism and Sexuality in Film and Video since the 1970s -- Bodies, Souls and Modern Warfare -- Aesculap in the Trenches: Aspects of German Medicine in the First World War -- The Failure of Love: A Lesser Theory of the Great War -- Benn?s Body. Masculine Aesthetics and Reproduction in Gottfried Benn?s Essays -- Women in the Military and the Cult of Masculinity -- Artistic and Literary Representations of Modern Warfare -- ?A Murderous Carnival?: German Artists in the First World War -- Arnold Zweig?s War Novellas of 1914 and their Versions: Literature, Modernity and the Demands of the Day -- War and Novel: Alfred D?blin?s ?Wallenstein? and ?November 1918? -- Violent Orders in Robert Musil?s ?Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften? and Thomas Bernhard?s ?Kalkwerk? -- ?Les peuples meurent, pour que Dieu vive?: Gertrud Kolmar?s Consecration of the Protagonists in the Drama of the French Revolution -- Laws of War and Revolution: Violence in Heiner M?ller?s Work -- Bibliography -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- Backmatter