(Re)Centring the Weimar Republic

Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Weimar's Political Centrisms
Katharina Clausius

Part I - Individual and Collective Positioning

1. Helmuth Plessner and the Ex-Centric Culture of the Weimar Republic
Howard Pollack-Milgate

2. Weimar: The Reading Republic
Kerstin Barndt

3. Minefield in the Centre: Berlin Politics and the Sklarek Affair (1929)
Tom Saunders

Part II - Party Centrists and Extremists

4. Hollowing Out the Political Centre: Purging Parliamentarians and the Waning of the Weimar Republic
James McSpadden

5. When the Centre Gives: The Balance of a Core Weltanschauung and Outside Pressure to Sustain the German Centre Party, 1925-1930
Martin Menke

6. (Re)Centring the Proletariat in Weimar Communist Politics: Karl Korsch's Struggle in the Ultra-Left
Marie-Josee Lavallee

Part III - (Re)Centring Weimar Today

7. Analyzing German Mainstream Media Coverage: Weimar in the News (2007-2019)
Jill Suzanne Smith, Fernando Nascimento, Barbara Levergood

8. Exhibiting Democracy: On Putting the Weimar Republic into a Museum
Peter C. Caldwell

9. Resounding Weimar's Cultural Legacy
Commentary and Interview with Ian Wekwerth and Johannes Ernst

List of Contributors
Index

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• História geral e do mundo
• História do século 20: c 1900 a c 2000
• História da Europa
• Estudos de comunicação
• Teoria e ciência política

Weimar Republic;political centrism;interwar Germany;democratic institutions;political stability;pluralism;national identity;political polarization;extremism;german intellectuals;progressive politics;multipartisan cooperation;cultural history