Robert Heynen teaches in Communication Studies at York University. He has published numerous articles on Weimar culture, socialist history, and surveillance, including in New Formations and Canadian Journal of Communication.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsChapter 1: Introduction: Weimar Germany and the Cultures of Capitalist Modernity1.1 Rethinking Weimar History1.2 Weimar Germany: The Crises of Capitalist Modernity1.3 Degeneration, Embodiment, and the Politics of Culture: A Marxist Perspective1.4 The Structure of the BookChapter 2: Degeneration: Gender, War and the Politics of the Volkskörper2.1 Introduction2.2 August 19142.3 Women’s Protests and Left Politics2.4 Masculinity, War, and the Cultural Politics of the Weimar Radical RightChapter 3: Revolution: Aesthetics, Politics, and the Question of Totality3.1 Introduction3.2 Nostalgia and Shock3.3 Art, Politics, and Revolution3.4 Expressionism and After3.5 TotalityChapter 4: Bodies and Minds: Art and the Politics of Degeneration4.1 Introduction4.2 (De)militarised Bodies: Art and Gender after War4.3 The Prostitute4.4 The Prosthetic Man: The Wounded or Disabled Veteran4.5 Outsider Art: Asylums and the Cultural Politics of Madness4.6 Primitivism, the Body, and Colonial NostalgiaChapter 5: Transforming Vision: Film, Photography, and the Politics of Social Hygiene5.1 Introduction: The Birth of Homo Cinematicus5.2 The Photo-Eye: New Modes of Vision5.3 The Primitive Spectator: Race, Gender, Class, and the Weimar Audience5.4 Optical Hygiene: Sanitising Vision5.5 Racial Aesthetics: Photography, Film, and the Weimar BodyChapter 6: Revolution and the Degeneration of the Weimar Republic: Worker Culture and the Rise of Fascism6.1 Introduction6.2 Towards a Worker Culture6.3 ‘We Are the Eyes of Our Class!’: Workers’ Photography and Film6.4 Proletarian Theatre and the Fight for the Streets6.5 Radical Cultures of the Body: The Left and the Struggle over Abortion6.6 In the Shadow of Fascism: Brecht, the Left, and the End of the Weimar RepublicReferencesIndex

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