In Degeneration and Revolution: Radical Cultural Politics and the Body in Weimar Germany Robert Heynen explores the impact of conceptions of degeneration, exemplified by eugenics and social hygiene, on the social, cultural, and political history of the left in Germany, 1914–33. Hygienic practices of bodily regulation were integral to the extension of modern capitalist social relations, and profoundly shaped Weimar culture. Heynen’s innovative interdisciplinary approach draws on Marxist and other critical traditions to examine the politics of degeneration and socialist, communist, and anarchist responses. Drawing on key Weimar theorists and addressing artistic and cultural movements ranging from Dada to worker-produced media, this book challenges us to rethink conventional understandings of left culture and politics, and of Weimar culture more generally.

Weimar Germany still fascinates us, and now this complex and remarkably creative period and place has the history it deserves. Eric Weitz's Weimar Germany reveals the Weimar era as a time of strikingly progressive achievements--and even greater promise. With a rich thematic narrative and detailed portraits of some of Weimar's greatest figures, this comprehensive history recaptures the excitement and drama as it unfolded, viewing Weimar in its own right--and not as a mere prelude to the Nazi era. Weimar Germany tells how Germans rose from the defeat of World War I and the turbulence of revolution to forge democratic institutions and make Berlin a world capital of avant-garde art. Setting the stage for this story, Weitz takes the reader on a walking tour of Berlin to see and feel what life was like there in the 1920s, when modernity and the modern city--with its bright lights, cinemas, "new women," cabarets, and sleek department stores--were new. We learn how Germans enjoyed better working conditions and new social benefits and listened to the utopian prophets of everything from radical socialism to communal housing to nudism. Weimar Germany also explores the period's revolutionary cultural creativity, from the new architecture of Erich Mendelsohn, Bruno Taut, and Walter Gropius to Hannah Hch's photomontages and Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's theater. Other chapters assess the period's turbulent politics and economy, and the recipes for fulfilling sex lives propounded by new "sexologists." Yet Weimar Germany also shows how entrenched elites continually challenged Weimar's achievements and ultimately joined with a new radical Right led by the Nazis to form a coalition that destroyed the republic. Thoroughly up-to-date, skillfully written, and strikingly illustrated, Weimar Germany brings to life as never before an era of creativity unmatched in the twentieth century-one whose influence and inspiration we still feel today.

英语和德语世界从来都不缺少歌德的传记，但萨弗兰斯基的这本《歌德传》所描写的是一个全新的歌德，评论称，当代文坛还没有一位作者能够收集如此丰富的传记写作材料，也没有一位作者的作品能够获得如此多的评论与阐释。 萨弗兰斯基通过歌德的著作、信件、日记、对话以及同时代人士对其的评价，试图全面贴近歌德，呈现出一个前所未有的生动的形象。这部传记将引导我们穿越时空，回到轻快的洛可可时代和刻板的蒸汽时代，这段时间作为一个整体被称之为“歌德时代”。

"Metropolis Berlin: 1880-1940" reconstitutes the built environment of Berlin during the period of its classical modernity using over two hundred contemporary texts, virtually all of which are published in English translation for the first time. They are from the pens of those who created Berlin as one of the world's great cities and those who observed this process: architects, city planners, sociologists, political theorists, historians, cultural critics, novelists, essayists, and journalists. Divided into nineteen sections, each prefaced by an introductory essay, the account unfolds chronologically, with the particular structural concerns of the moment addressed in sequence - be they department stores in 1900, housing in the 1920s, or parade grounds in 1940. "Metropolis Berlin: 1880-1940" not only details the construction of Berlin, but explores homes and workplaces, public spaces, circulation, commerce, and leisure in the German metropolis as seen through the eyes of all social classes, from the humblest inhabitants of the city slums, to the great visionaries of the modern city, and the demented dictator resolved to remodel Berlin as Germania.

德国《焦点周刊》评价说：“马丁•瓦尔泽这部针砭文坛内幕的讽刺作品写得妙语连珠，逸闻趣事信手拈来……瓦尔泽从未写过如此优秀、如此泼辣的篇章。” ***** 瓦尔泽的文字，机智而富有哲理，我深深佩服。 ——莫言 （2012年诺贝尔文学奖得主） 托马斯•曼之后，最伟大的德语作家是谁？当然是马丁•瓦尔泽。他是当代的歌德。 ——李洱（著名作家） 马丁•瓦尔泽是除德国大主教之外，对德国人影响最大的人。他的《迸涌的流泉》和《恋爱中的男人》等作品就体现出他为什么是德国人心灵世界的精确的刻画大师。 ——邱华栋 （著名作家） ****** ◇ 著名作家 莫言 李洱 邱华栋 倾情推荐 ◇ 与君特•格拉斯齐名的德国文学大师，德国文学最高奖毕希纳奖得主 ◇ 引发德国文艺界大震荡的争议之作，以文学的力量审视德国当代文坛 ◇ “让一个被视为罪该万死的人死去，这才是现实主义的人物形象！”——马丁•瓦尔泽 ——————————————————————————————————— 广受追捧的文学批评家安德烈・埃尔-柯尼希离奇死亡。因嫌疑重大而遭逮捕的作家汉斯·拉赫，不久前因其小说新作被埃尔-柯尼希大加贬损而向批评家当面发出了威胁。汉斯・拉赫的朋友，学者米夏埃尔·兰多尔夫坚信其无罪，就此展开单方面的调查，过程中先后遭遇了形形色色的人物：警察、作家、 学者、出版家等等。他与他们逐一进行交锋和对话。随着调查深入，事件的样貌被不断修改和重塑，人心陷入言语的迷宫，悬念迭生，真相却依旧隐藏在重重迷雾之中……

- 编辑推荐 - ·杜尚的《泉》、马勒维奇的《黑方块》、蒙德里安的格子画……这些艺术作品的创新究竟有何意义？它们的文化价值究竟从哪儿来？ ·著名艺术评论家、策展人鲍里斯•格罗伊斯为我们创设了一个广阔的思考空间，使一系列关于神圣和世俗（什么才算是文化？）、传统和断裂（文化如何进入档案库？），以及时尚和历史之间关系的话题得以展开。 ·格罗伊斯擅长将不同的哲学传统（从法国后结构主义到现代俄罗斯哲学）融入他具有启示意义的分析中，这些问题直指当今文化生产的核心，展现出他极其宽广的思想维度。 - 内容简介 - 本书探讨了当代文化发展中一个极为关键的议题：创新。不论是理论家、作家还是艺术家都不断被要求去创造新的东西。但是“新”这个概念本身已经彻底发生了变化。“新”的定义只能以它和现存的和旧有东西之间在某个文化中的关系来确定。一件艺术作品的价值是由它和其他艺术作品之间的关系，而不是以它和文化以外的现实之间的关系所决定的。这就意味着在文化中，创新其实是一种重估价值的过程，从本质上说，创新是一种经济层面上的运作过程。而每个希望参与到社会生活中去的人都在参与这种价值交换。 对格罗伊斯来说，创新是一种对文化的否定式适应。艺术品和文化传统之间的关系及其在多大程度上可以否定性来适应传统成为了评价艺术作品的主要标准。因此，世俗和日常的领域如今可以进入文化档案库。一个最好的例子就是杜尚的现成品。本书通过对新与旧、日常和文化之间辩证关系的探讨，展现了艺术和理论是如何获得文化价值的过程。

"[This book] mirrors all of Nietzsche's thought and could be related in hundreds of ways to his other books, his notes, and his letters. And yet it is complete in itself. For it is a work of art." —Walter Kaufmann in the Introduction Nietzsche called The Gay Science "the most personal of all my books." It was here that he first proclaimed the death of God—to which a large part of the book is devoted—and his doctrine of the eternal recurrence. Walter Kaufmann's commentary, with its many quotations from previously untranslated letters, brings to life Nietzsche as a human being and illuminates his philosophy. The book contains some of Nietzsche's most sustained discussions of art and morality, knowledge and truth, the intellectual conscience and the origin of logic. Most of the book was written just before Thus Spoke Zarathustra , the last part five years later, after Beyond Good and Evil . We encounter Zarathustra in these pages as well as many of Nietzsche's most interesting philosophical ideas and the largest collection of his own poetry that he himself ever published. Walter Kaufmann's English versions of Nietzsche represent one of the major translation enterprises of our time. He is the first philosopher to have translated Nietzsche's major works, and never before has a single translator given us so much of Nietzsche.