Nature, Knowledge, and Protest

2021 ◽  
Vol 65 ◽  
pp. 149-163
Author(s):  
Jan Kellershohn
Keyword(s):  
West Germany ◽  
Nuclear Movement ◽  
Gary Snyder ◽  
Versity Press

Melanie Arndt: Tschernobylkinder. Die transnationale Geschichte einer nuklearen Ka- tastrophe, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2020, 499 pp., ISBN: 978-3-525- 35208-3. Nils Güttler: Alles über das Fliegen. Eine politische Wissensgeschichte des Frankfurter Flughafens, Vienna: Turia & Kant, 2020, 123 pp., ISBN: 978-3-85132-981-0. Katrin Jordan: Ausgestrahlt. Die mediale Debatte um „Tschernobyl“ in der Bundesrepu- blik und in Frankreich 1986/87, Göttingen: Wallstein, 2018, 424 pp., ISBN: 978-3- 8353-3304-8. Stephen Milder: Greening Democracy. The Anti-Nuclear Movement and Political Envi- ronmentalism in West Germany and Beyond, 1968–1983, Cambridge: Cambridge Uni- versity Press, 2017, 280 pp., ISBN: 978-1-107-13510-9. Christian Möller: Umwelt und Herrschaft in der DDR. Politik, Protest und die Gren- zen der Partizipation in der Diktatur, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2020, 396 pp., ISBN: 978-3-525-31096-0. Martin Spenger: Green Beat. Gary Snyder und die moderne amerikanische Umweltbe- wegung, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2020, 239 pp., ISBN: 978-3-525- 31098-4.

Apocalyptic Angst

German Angst ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 290-330
Author(s):  
Frank Biess
Keyword(s):  
Driving Forces ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Emotional Expressiveness ◽  
Nuclear War ◽  
Nuclear Movement ◽  
Environmental Threats ◽  
Holocaust Memory ◽  
External Threats ◽  
Emotional Culture ◽  
History Of

This chapter analyzes the culmination of the history of fear in postwar West Germany during the 1980s. A culture of emotional expressiveness now merged with two new external threats: environmental disaster and a nuclear war. Apocalyptic fears served as the emotional driving forces of two new social movements: the environmental and the peace movements. The environmental movement did not emerge only as a result of new environmental threats but also derived from a changed emotional culture that increased individuals’ susceptibility to environmental threats. The chapter analyzes the emerging perception of a global ecological crisis, the anti-nuclear movement, and the debate over the dying forest in the 1980s. It then explains the emergence of the largest protest movement in the history of West Germany—the peace movement of the 1980s—as a result of a new culture of emotional expressiveness. Peace activists enacted this new emotional culture by publicly displaying and performing fear. The emergence of a popular Holocaust memory also enabled apocalyptic fears of, as it was called, a “nuclear Holocaust.”

Verdinglichung und Zerstörung. Günther Anders und der Begriff der Geschichte im Jahr 1941

Naharaim ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 117-138
Author(s):  
Anna Pollmann
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Production ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Atomic Bomb ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Literary Form ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Modern Concept ◽  
Nuclear Movement ◽  
Philosophical Inquiry ◽  
Hollywood Film

Abstract The article discusses the transformation of the concept of History as it can be traced in the writings of Günther Anders. Anders is primarily known as a critique of modern technology specifically of the atomic bomb, which made him a mentor for the first anti-nuclear movement in West-Germany in the late 1950s. His historical thinking was therefore mainly perceived in its post-historic and apocalyptic dimensions. A closer look at his earlier writings reveals not only that his questioning of the modern concept of History began long before the “ontological cesura” of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The article discusses two unpublished philosophical manuscripts as well as passages from his Californian diaries, both dating from 1940/41 and focussing the concept of progress. To follow his thoughts from two different angles – historical philosophical inquiry (however fragmented) and the literary form of his diary – gives us insight in his specific methodology of writing coined “Gelegenheitsphilosophie”. This specific form between “journalism and metaphysics” enables Anders to review abstract philosophical concepts on the basis of everyday observation. In the crucial year 1941 Anders reviews progress-thought from the perspective of a Hollywood film studio, raising questions of tradition, authenticity and technological progress in cultural production.

Trends in the Prevalence of Atopic Eczema in East and West Germany

1998 ◽  
Vol 138 (2) ◽  
pp. 376-376
Author(s):  
Schäfer ◽  
Krämer ◽  
Vieluf ◽  
Behrendt ◽  
Ring
Keyword(s):  
Atopic Eczema ◽  
West Germany ◽  
East And West Germany ◽  
East And West
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