The age of questions or, a first attempt at an aggregate history of the Eastern, social, woman, American, Jewish, Polish, bullion, tuberculosis, and many other questions over the nineteenth century, and beyond
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Prologue: Questions and Their Predecessors -- Definitions -- The Reality of Questions -- Beyond Begriff -- Questions as Problems -- Ennui and Excess -- Predecessors and Foils of Questions -- Querel...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Langue: | English |
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Princeton : Princeton University Press,
2018
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| Titres liés à la collection: | Human Rights and Crimes Against Humanity Ser
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| Sujets: | Civilization, Modern History, Modern Social change Nationalism Electronic books |
| Description matérielle: | 1 Online-Ressource (355 pages) |
| Résumé: | Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Prologue: Questions and Their Predecessors -- Definitions -- The Reality of Questions -- Beyond Begriff -- Questions as Problems -- Ennui and Excess -- Predecessors and Foils of Questions -- Querelle, querist, querulant -- 1 The National Argument: The Imperial to the National Age -- A Word-Making Age -- An Imperial Prehistory of the Age -- International Public Sphere -- Hungary Enters the "Age of Questions" -- What's in a Word? -- Epilogue -- 2 The Progressive Argument: The Age of Emancipation -- A Progressive Age -- Bundling Questions: For Our Freedom and Yours -- Critics of the Age -- The Essence of Questions -- Contradictions and Defects -- A New Man -- Popular Pedagogy -- An Answering Being -- Epilogue -- 3 The Argument about Force: The Loaded Questions of a Genocidal Age -- A Demoralized Age -- The Dark Side of Emancipation -- The Dark Side of Bundling -- The Dark Side of Equilibrium -- Sanctioned Decontamination: The Jewish Question in the Age of Questions -- Hitler as Question Bundler -- Epilogue -- 4 The Federative Argument: The Age of Erasing Borders -- An Aggregating Age -- Formulating Universalism -- Federated Questions: From Indefinite to Definite -- The Federation Consensus -- Epilogue -- 5 The Argument about Farce: The Farcical Age -- A Fraudulent Age -- The Scientization of Questions -- The Wages of Passion -- Epilogue -- 6 The Temporal Argument: The Age of Spin -- A Time-Conscious Age -- Timing -- The American Question Revisited -- Periodicity -- Cathartic Futures -- A Question of Genre: The Constraints Imposed by Timeliness -- Zeitfragen -- Epilogue -- 7 The Suspension-Bridge Argument: The Age of Spanning Contradictions -- A Paradoxical Age -- Automatism -- A Shift in Register -- In Two Places at Once The Function and Fiction of the Age -- Notes -- Index |
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| Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Description matérielle: | 1 Online-Ressource (355 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781400890217 1400890217 9780691131153 0691131155 |