War, violence, and the modern condition

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Introduction: Modernity and Violence: Observations Concerning a Contradictory Relationship / Bernd Huppauf

The Great War and the Persistence of Tradition: Languages of Grief, Bereavement and Mourning / J. M. Winter

Starting from Scratch: Concepts of Order in No Man's Land / Cornelia Vismann

The Therapeutic Response: Continuities from World War One to National Socialism / Frank Trommler

From War Economy to "New Economy": World War I and the Conservative Debate about the 'other' Modernity in Germany / Wolfgang Michalka

Some Lessons of the War: The Discourse on the Propaganda and Public Opinion in Germany in the 1920s / Jeffrey Verhey

Blitzkrieg: "God Stinnes" or the Depoliticization of the Sublime / Karlheinz Barck

The fiftieth Anniversary of the Allied Air Raids on Dresden: A Half Century of Literature and History Writing / Andy Spencer

Sexy Nazis and Daddy's Girls: Fascism and Sexuality in Film and Video since the 1970s / Andrea Slane

Aesculap in the Trenches: Aspects of German Medicine in the First World War / Wolfgang U. Eckart

The Failure of Love: A Lesser Theory of the Great War / Lisabeth During

Benn's Body, Masculine Aesthetics and Reproduction in Gottfried Benn's Essays / Crystal Mazur Ockenfuss

Women in the Military and the Cult of Masculinity / Philip D'Alton

"A Murderous Carnival": German Artists in the First World War / Richard Cork

Arnold Zweig's War Novellas of 1914 and their Versions: Literature, Modernity and the Demands of the Day / Robert Cohen

War and Novel: Alfred Doblin's "Wallenstein" and "November 1918" / Harro Muller

Violent Orders in Robert Musil's "Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften" and Thomas Bernhard's "Kalkwerk" / Tim Mehigan

"Les peuples meurent, pour que Dieu vive": Gertrud Kolmar's Consecration of the Protagonists in the Drama of the French Revolution / Justus Fetscher

Laws of War and Revolution: Violence in Heiner Muller's Work / Wolf Kittler