Browsing by Author "Norberg, Jakob"
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Adorno's Advice: Minima Moralia and the Critique of Liberalism
(2011)Adorno’s Minima Moralia was part of a publishing boom in the genre of advice literature in postwar West Germany. The combination of economic resurgence and attempted cultural restoration resulted in a widespread wish to ... -
Authorship and Ownership
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Disappearing Socialism: Volker Braun's Unvollendete Geschichte
(2010)One aspect of the Cold War’s legacy has slipped from collective memory: the distinctly socialist arguments against the regimes of the East, for instance the GDR.Volker Braun’s 1977 novella Unvollendete Geschichte provides ... -
"Haushalten": The Economy of the Phrase in Peter Handke's Wunschloses Ungluck
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No Coffee
(2007)A short history of coffee, and of civil society. What is it about coffee – and coffeehouses – that makes it so agreeable to the bourgeoisie? asks Jakob Norberg in a brief social history of the dark, rich brew. For Jürgen ... -
The Black Book: Karl Kraus's Etiquette
(2007)The conduct book stakes out the boundaries of correct behavior, making instructions for self-management available to anyone who strives for easy social integration. Given its close relation to the mores of the educated classes, ... -
The Brothers Grimm and the Making of German Nationalism
(2022-04-30)Vividly reconstructing the political ideas of the Brothers Grimm, Jakob Norberg transforms our image of history's most famous folklorists.
