Kurt Eisner : a modern life /
The first comprehensive biography in English of the leader of the Bavarian Revolution and Republic of 1918/19, the first Jewish head of a European state and a man who embraced and embodied modernity.
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Rochester, New York :
Camden House
2018.
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| Series: | German history in context.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt1wx9209 |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- 1. A Novel's Suffering Hero: A Youth in Berlin (1867-1889)
- 2. Aristocratize the Masses: From Berlin to Frankfurt to Marburg (1890-1893)
- 3. Refuge of All Idealists: Through Cohen to Kant toward Marx (1893-1896)
- 4. Dictatorial Megalomania: Lèse Majesté and Plötzensee Prison (1896-1898)
- 5. Making the Leap: Back to Berlin as a Social Democrat (1898-1900)
- 6. No Idle Dreamer: At the Helm of Vorwärts (1900-1902)
- 7. My Life's Purpose: Molding the Readership (1902-1903)
- 8. Never . . . a Less Fruitful Scholastic Debate: Intramural Strife
- Evolution vs. Revolution (1903-1905)
- 9. Revolutionizing Minds: The Scorched Middle Ground (1905)
- 10. The Complete Parity of My Experiences: From Exile to Nuremberg (1905-1907)
- 11. The Most Genuine and Fruitful Radicalism: Taking the Lead at the Fränkische Tagespost (1907-1908)
- 12. So Suspect a Heretic, as Surely I Am: New Bearings in North Bavaria (1908)
- 13. Dear Little Whore: Personal and Professional Turmoil (1909)
- 14. To Find a Lost Life: From Nuremberg to Munich (1909-1910)
- 15. Something of a Party Offiziosus in Bavaria: Political Editor at the Münchener Post (1910-1911)
- 16. At Peace with Myself: Resettling into Family Life (1912-1913)
- 17. The Powerlessness of Reason: The World War Erupts (1914)
- 18. Wretched Superfluity: Divided Loyalties (1915-1916)
- 19. War for War's Sake: Political Alienation and Realignment (1916-1917)
- 20. The Most Beautiful Days of My Life: Leading the Opposition (1917-1918)
- 21. Our Power to Act Now Grows: From Prisoner to Premier (1918)
- 22. The Terror of Truth: Forging the Republic, Combatting Reaction (1918)
- 23. The Fantasies of a Visionary: Martyr of the Revolution (1918-1919)
- 24. Now Dead, as It Stands: Outcomes and Legacy (1919-2017)
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Sources and References
- Index