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(Re)Centring the Weimar Republic

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

AvKatharina Clausius,Claudia Clausius,Katharina Clausius,Claudia Clausius

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(Re)Centring the Weimar Republic explores how centrist German politicians and intellectuals sought to foster stability and cooperation during the interwar period.In contrast to the persistent image of a democracy “hollowed out” by divisiveness and political extremism, this book offers a new perspective on the Republic’s efforts to define and hold an ambitious and productive middle ground. Leading scholars and cultural practitioners from the fields of history, German studies, philosophy, literary studies, and music document the progressive activities of the Weimar Republic’s “centre” to answer the question: how can political centrism employ social, cultural, and democratic institutions to resist polarization and extremism? This book’s three sections reveal how key thinkers worked to balance pluralism and national identity, how politicians struggled to hold centrist positions across right-leaning, centrist, and left-leaning parties, and how contemporary culture today interprets those efforts for audiences in the press, the museum, and the concert hall.In today’s age of stumbling democratic institutions and increasing political polarization, (Re)Centring the Weimar Republic offers a historical touchstone for evaluating liberal democracy pushed to its limits and the multipartisan efforts to reinforce its principles.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-03-03
Mått159 x 235 x 22 mm
Vikt540 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieGerman and European Studies
Antal sidor304
FörlagUniversity of Toronto Press
ISBN9781487560089

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Illustrations AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Weimar’s Political CentrismsKatharina Clausius Part I – Individual and Collective Positioning 1. Helmuth Plessner and the Ex-Centric Culture of the Weimar RepublicHoward Pollack-Milgate 2. Weimar: The Reading RepublicKerstin Barndt3. Minefield in the Centre: Berlin Politics and the Sklarek Affair (1929) Tom SaundersPart II – Party Centrists and Extremists 4. Hollowing Out the Political Centre: Purging Parliamentarians and the Waning of the Weimar RepublicJames McSpadden 5. When the Centre Gives: The Balance of a Core Weltanschauung and Outside Pressure to Sustain the German Centre Party, 1925–1930Martin Menke6. (Re)Centring the Proletariat in Weimar Communist Politics: Karl Korsch’s Struggle in the Ultra-LeftMarie-Josée Lavallée 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 MuseumPeter C. Caldwell 9. Resounding Weimar’s Cultural LegacyCommentary and Interview with Ian Wekwerth and Johannes ErnstList of ContributorsIndex