Dante : un guide spirituel pour l’Europe moderne. Quelques remarques sur les lectures dantesques d’Ernst Troeltsch à l’occasion du jubilé allemand de la mort du poète en 1921... by Bérénice Palaric

“…Looking at the interpretations of the poet by theologian and philosopher Ernst Troeltsch, one of the major intellectuals of the young Weimar Republic, this article aims to examine how Dante is used as a guide to meet the challenges of the reconciliation of Europe, of the place of religion in modernity, and of the democratization of culture. …”
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Prédire l’avenir ou relancer le devenir ? by Bérénice Palaric

“…On the occasion of the centenary of their major works, the second volume of The Decline of the West and Der Historismus und seine Probleme (1922), this article aims to confront the thought of two significant intellectuals of the first years of the Weimar Republic: the neoconservative Oswald Spengler (1880-1936) and the liberal democrat Ernst Troeltsch (1865-1923). …”
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Ewald Banse : orientaliste et « géographe de l’âme » by Catherine Repussard

“…This paper examines political views on Persia in the Weimar Republic of the 1920s. That era witnessed the emergence of a ‘geography of the soul’, combined with the idea of the ‘soul of peoples’, a legacy of political romanticism that echoed with the then fashionable concept of psychology of peoples (Völkerpsychologie). …”
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Fabians Flanieren und der Müßiggang in der Krise by Benedikt Hengstl

“…Fabian’s position in the society of the late Weimar Republic is understood as a reaction to the completely rationalized, economized character of the depicted world—especially Berlin—and to the experiences of an entire generation. …”
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Eine kurze Geschichte der deutschsprachigen Science Fiction by Hans Esselborn

“…This literature blossomed with science fiction novels, short stories and thin booklets up to the First World War and attained an international peak with Hans Dominik and the avant-gardist Alfred Döblin in the Weimar Republic. After the Second World War, there was an ideological split between West and East German literature although they dealt with similar topics like the atomic disaster. …”
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Seismic Performance of Steel Frames with Semirigid Connections by Iman Faridmehr, Mahmood Md. Tahir, Tom Lahmer, Mohd Hanim Osman

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Ortega on liberalism and democracy: revisiting an old discussion by Carlos Morujão

“…I argue that some traits of Ortega’s liberalism, namely, Ortega’s concern with social rights, can also be found in some liberal authors of the Weimar Republic. However, my central claim in this paper is that the kind of liberalism Ortega proposes is only understandable in the light of its philosophical groundwork. …”
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1922 — the best year of the Comintern. Soviet Russia, German communists and the Genoa conference by A. Yu. Vatlin

“…However, the author notes that this support was based on a highly unstable compromise between multiple contradicting domestic and foreign policy imperatives, including opposition from the left-wing radicals within the party and continuous conflict with the government of the Weimar Republic, exacerbated by ideological and financial dependence on Moscow. …”
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From Trinidad to Cyberspace: Reconsidering Ernst Toch’s “Geographical Fugue” by Carmel Raz

“…This article contextualizes Toch’s compositional choices within the artistic, political, and scientific discourses of the Weimar Republic, with a focus on relationship between exoticism, experimental art and technology, postwar constructions of the body, and the influence of contemporary research on phonetics and sound reproduction. …”
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Heine, écrivain français putatif ? by Lucien Calvié

“…The question also underlies the two major existing critical editions known as “Düsseldorfer Ausgabe” and “Weimarer Ausgabe”. Paradoxically, and even more than Germanistik in Germany, German Studies in France seem to have long favored, in various ways, a “German” Heine to the detriment of the “French” Heine. …”
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Li+ diffusion in crystalline lithium silicides: influence of intrinsic point defects by Christoph Kirsch, Christian Dreßler, Daniel Sebastiani

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