The Quest for Individual Freedom | Buch

Cover: 9781009482813 | The Quest for Individual Freedom | Moritz Föllmer | Buch | Englisch

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Beschreibung

What does it mean to see oneself as free? And how can this freedom be attained in times of conflict and social upheaval? In this ambitious study, Moritz Föllmer explores what twentieth-century Europeans understood by individual freedom and how they endeavoured to achieve it. Combining cultural, social, and political history, this book highlights the tension between ordinary people's efforts to secure personal independence and the ambitious attempts of thinkers and activists to embed notions of freedom in political and cultural agendas. The quest to be a free individual was multi-faceted; no single concept predominated. Men and women articulated and pursued it against the backdrop of two world wars, the expanding power of the state, the constraints of working life, pre-established moral norms, the growing influence of America, and uncertain futures of colonial rule. But although claims to individual freedom could be steered and stymied, they could not, ultimately, be suppressed.

Über den Autor

Moritz Föllmer is Associate Professor of Modern History at the University of Amsterdam. He has particular interests in Weimar and Nazi Germany, and concepts of individuality and urbanity in twentieth-century Europe. Previous publications include Individuality and Modernity in Berlin: Self and Society from Weimar to the Wall (Cambridge, 2013), Culture in the Third Reich (2020), and, as co-editor, Reshaping Capitalism in Weimar and Nazi Germany (Cambridge, 2022).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments; List of Figures; Introduction; 1. In Time of War; 2. The Power of the State; 3. Varieties of Work; 4. Moral Norms; 5. Boundaries of Europeanness; Conclusion; Select Bibliography; Index.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2025
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Buch
ISBN-13:	9781009482813
ISBN-10:	1009482815
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Föllmer, Moritz
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Pr.
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	235 x 159 x 23 mm
Von/Mit:	Moritz Föllmer
Erscheinungsdatum:	10.04.2025
Gewicht:	0,54 kg