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Culture in Dark Times - 9780857455901

Un libro in lingua di Jost Hermand edito da Berghahn Books, 2012

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Hermand (German, U. of Wisconsin, Madison) studies why "the most artistically ambitious art forms [were] still viewed as politically important by all cultured (or even semicultured) Germans in the period from 1933 to 1945." He identifies three claims to cultural representation and authenticity with regard to German culture. He argues they are made by Nazi fascists, by artists of what he calls an "inner emigration" who operated "in that ideological gray area between aversion and accommodation" to Nazi rule without being openly antifascist, and by a group of exiles comprised of apolitical humanists and active antifascists. This is an antidote to the commonplace view that Nazi political aesthetics were the result of Third Reich leadership's past as failed artists. Instead, Hermand shows that "not everything that was categorically labeled as culture deserves this distinction. There were many serious efforts within inner emigration and exile groups to maintain the dignity of German culture and deploy it as a weapon against the barbarism of Nazi fascism." He looks at a wide range of art, from literature to paintings to film to radio. This text is translated from German by Victoria W. Hill. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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