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Title

The intellectual response to the First World War : how the conflict impacted on ideas, methods and fields of enquiry / edited by Sarah Posman, Cedric Van Dijck, Marysa Demoor.

Publication

• Eastbourne ; Portland, OR, USA : Sussex Academic Press, 2017.
• ©2017

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Additional Authors

• Posman, Sarah
• Dijck, Cedric van
• Demoor, Marysa

Description

x, 301 pages : illustrations, map; 25 cm

Summary

"The First World War changed the dynamics of the European intellectual landscape in terms of international collaboration, the development of disciplines and new institutional visions. The conflict not only destroyed much of Europe's material cultural heritage, it also damaged the 19th-century humanist conception of the function of thought and problematized the position of the thinker in society. What is the intellectual's task in a time of destruction and death? This book spotlights the ways in which the war redrew the map of knowledge production and changed traditional paradigms, fundamentally altering the approach to intellectual work. Thinking became more democratic and specialized, with a range of voices tackling specific problems created by the war, but now more conspicuously related to particular causes. The focus on the viewpoints of the 1914-1918 intellectual cadre throws into perspective the ways in which the war changed the contents, methods and organization of intellectual work. Part One looks at the war as an object of study; Part Two explores the methodological challenges the war entailed; and Part Three sheds light on the ways in which the conflict and its aftermath redrew the map of collaborative intellectual networks. The case-studies come from different disciplines and cover a range of contexts, from German engineering to British wartime periodicals. Revisiting the early 20th-century intellectual situation not only enriches our understanding of the dynamics of the Great War, it also assists in repositioning the role of the intellectual in the 21st century"--

Alternative Title

Intellectual response to the 1st World War

Subjects

• Intellectuals
• War and society
• Knowledge, Sociology of
• Europe
• History
• Social aspects
• Intellectual life
• Knowledge, Sociology of > History > 20th century
• World War, 1914-1918 > Influence
• World War (1914-1918)
• World War, 1914-1918 > Social aspects > Europe
• Europe > Intellectual life > 20th century
• Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
• HISTORY > Modern > 20th Century
• 1900-1999
• PHILOSOPHY > Political
• Intellectuals > Europe > History > 20th century
• War and society > Europe > History > 20th century

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Foreword / by Stefan Goebel -- Introduction. World War One and intellectual work / Sarah Posman, Cedric Van Dijck and Marysa Demoor -- Part one. Ideas. Social sciences and World War One : the case of Germany / Hinnerk Bruhns -- "In the long run the spirit will prevail" : the political activism of Dutch Hegelians for peace and intellectual fraternity / Marjet Brolsma -- Rudolf Eucken : Philosophicus teutonicus (1913-1914) / Nicolas de Warren -- Word magic, word science, and the world war / Ken Hirschkop -- "We have to realize that we are born into a landscape of ice and fire" : Ernst Jünger's intellectual responses to the First World War (1915-1932) / Thomas Petraschka -- Avant-garde writers and artists : camouflaging suffering and death? / Annette Becker -- Part two. Methods. Emotionalisation, propaganda and latent Europe : French and German sociologists debating the war / Gregor Fitzi -- Between science and the nation : the Comité d'Études et Documents sur la Guerre, an epistemological and textual analysis (1914-1916) / Giovanni Cristina --
• Making loss legible : Käthe Kollwitz and Jane Catulle-Mendès / Sophie De Schaepdrijver -- Polyphonic war : intellectuals and the working class in French war fiction / Marianne Michaux -- The stench of corpses : on the poetic coding of smell in the literature of the Great War (1914-1933) / Frank Krause -- War on scale : models for the First World War battlefront / Willem Bekers and Ronald De Meyer -- Part three. Fields. Mobilizing mathematics : Vito Volterra, the Bureau des Inventions and Franco-Italian mathematical networks / Antonin Durand -- "We have been ruled by dilettantes up to now" : Senior Engineer Siegfried Hartmann and the Reichsbund Deutscher Technik / Christian Schmidt -- "A new lease of life" : Art & letters, war and the work of survival / Cedric Van Dijck -- Karl Polanyi : from wartime epiphany to The great transformation / Gareth Dale -- International peace of mind : the League of Nations, the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation, and the war against war / Joseph Kochanek -- The Great War and modern science : lessons and legacies / Roy MacLeod.

Call Number

JFE 17-6852

ISBN

• 9781845198244
• 1845198247

LCCN

• 2016052611
• 40027150498

OCLC

960839398

Title

The intellectual response to the First World War : how the conflict impacted on ideas, methods and fields of enquiry / edited by Sarah Posman, Cedric Van Dijck, Marysa Demoor.

Publisher

Eastbourne ; Portland, OR, USA : Sussex Academic Press, 2017.

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Posman, Sarah, editor.

Dijck, Cedric van, editor.

Demoor, Marysa, editor.

Other Standard Identifier

40027150498

Research Call Number

JFE 17-6852