Culture and Inflation in Weimar Germany
Format:Hardback
Publisher:University of California Press
Published:13th Mar '01
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For many Germans the hyperinflation of 1922 to 1923 was one of the most decisive experiences of the twentieth century. In his original and authoritative study, Bernd Widdig investigates the effects of that inflation on German culture during the Weimar Republic. He argues that inflation, with its dynamics of massification, devaluation, and the rapid circulation of money, is an integral part of modern culture and intensifies and condenses the experience of modernity in a traumatic way.
"A landmark study.... Widdig's energetic account uses an interdisciplinary approach to reveal how economic anxieties were powerfully symptomatic of larger social and cultural issues." - Maria Tatar, author of Lustmord: Sexual Murder in Weimar Germany "Bernd Widdig displays sharp intelligence and uncommon wit in this brilliant study of culture and inflation. Following the explosions in politics and culture that the inflation detonated from the end of World War I to the rise of the Nazis, this book is a bold and original mediation on modernity and money and the trauma of oblivion. It is a masterful, illuminating analysis." - Peter Fritzsche, author of Reading Berlin 1900"
ISBN: 9780520222908
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 28mm
Weight: 590g
293 pages