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Book The Baader Meinhof Affair

Download or read book The Baader Meinhof Affair written by Erin Cosgrove and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mara was a loner at the very exclusive Norden College until she meets the fascinating Holden Rife who introduces her to a secretive off-campus world of Baader-Meinhof aficionados. But how far will Holden's activist group go in playing out their love affair with these uppermiddle-class German terrorist/revolutionaries? Mara discovers that Holden's Baader-Meinhof group is more dangerous than she ever imagined. The devotees blur the line between reality and make-believe in the 'Baader-Meinhof Games, ' while Mara struggles not to lose herself and her heart to the impossible and impossibly handsome Holden Rife.

Book A Hundred Flowers Have Bloomed

Download or read book A Hundred Flowers Have Bloomed written by Erin Cosgrove and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Baader Meinhof and the Novel

Download or read book Baader Meinhof and the Novel written by J. Preece and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-04-14 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Baader-Meinhof Group and other violent underground organizations have provided material to many novels by leading German and international writers. This book is the first to examine this rich literary corpus, treating it as a political unconscious which expresses submerged anxieties and moral blind-spots in Europe's most powerful country.

Book Baader Meinhof

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stefan Aust
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 0195372751
  • Pages : 489 pages

Download or read book Baader Meinhof written by Stefan Aust and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2009 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aust presents the definitive account of the RAF, capturing a highly complex story both accurately and colorfully. Much new information has surfaced since the mass suicide of the Groups' leaders in the 1980s. Some RAF members have come forward to testify in new investigations and formerly classified Stasi documents have been made public since the fall of the Berlin Wall, all contributing to a fuller picture of the RAF and the events surrounding their demise. Aust ranges from the group's creation in 1970 to their breakup in 1998, incorporating all of the new information.

Book Understanding Heinrich B  ll

Download or read book Understanding Heinrich B ll written by Robert C. Conard and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hitler s Children

Download or read book Hitler s Children written by Jillian Becker and published by Author House. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1977 in the US and Britain to universal critical acclaim, Hitler's Children quickly became a world-wide best seller, translated into many other languages, including Japanese. It tells the story of the West German terrorists who emerged out of the 'New Left' student protest movement of the late 1960s. With bombs and bullets they started killing in the name of 'peace'. Almost all of them came from prosperous, educated families. They were 'Hitler's children' not only in that they had been born in or immediately after the Nazi period - some of their parents having been members of the Nazi party - but also because they were as fiercely against individual freedom as the Nazis were. Their declared ideology was Communism. They were beneficiaries of both American aid and the West German economic miracle. Despising their immeasurable gifts of prosperity and freedom, they 'identified' themselves with Third World victims of wars, poverty and oppression, whose plight they blamed on 'Western imperialism'. In reality, their terrorist activity was for no better cause than self-expression. Their dreams of leading a revolution were ended when one after another of them died in shoot-outs with the police, or was blown up with his own bomb, or was arrested, tried, and condemned to long terms of imprisonment. All four leaders of the Red Army Faction (dubbed 'the Baader-Meinhof gang' by journalists) committed suicide in prison.

Book THE BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX

Download or read book THE BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX written by Uli Edel and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book THE BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX

Download or read book THE BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking

Download or read book Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking written by Daniel C. Dennett and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the world's leading philosophers offers aspiring thinkers his personal trove of mind-stretching thought experiments. Includes 77 of Dennett's most successful "imagination-extenders and focus-holders.O

Book Destruction Rites

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  • Author : Mona Hadler
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2017-01-30
  • ISBN : 1786721597
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book Destruction Rites written by Mona Hadler and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early sixties, crowds gathered to watch rites of destruction - from the demolition derby where makeshift cars crashed into each other for sport, to concerts where musicians destroyed their instruments, to performances of self-destructing machines staged by contemporary artists. Destruction, in both its playful and fearsome aspects, was ubiquitous in the new Atomic Age. This complicated subjectivity was not just a way for people to find catharsis amid the fears of annihilation and postwar trauma, but also a complex instantiation of ideological crisis in a time with some seriously conflicted political myths. Destruction Rites explores the ephemeral visual culture of destruction in the postwar era and its links to contemporary art. It examines the demolition derby; games and toys based on warfare; playgrounds situated in bomb sites; and the rise of garage sales, where goods designed for obsolescence and destined for the garbage heap are reclaimed and repurposed by local communities. Mona Hadler looks at artists such as Jean Tinguely, Niki de Saint Phalle, Martha Rosler and Vito Acconci to expose how the 1960s saw destruction, construction and the everyday collide as never before. During the Atomic age, whether in the public sphere or art museums, destruction could be transformed into a constructive force and art objects and performances often oscillated between the two.

Book The Baader Meinhof Complex

Download or read book The Baader Meinhof Complex written by Stefan Aust and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text tells the story of how a small group of young middle-class people, out of moral indignation about the Vietnam War and the injustices of capitalist society, turned to bombings, kidnappings and murder, thus resorting to flagrant immorality themselves.

Book The Intellectual and His People

Download or read book The Intellectual and His People written by Jacques Ranciere and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2012-06-19 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the previous volume of essays by Jacques Rancière from the 1970s, Staging the People: The Proletarian and His Double, this second collection focuses on the ways in which radical philosophers understand the people they profess to speak for. The Intellectual and His People engages in an incisive and original way with current political and cultural issues, including the “discovery” of totalitarianism by the “new philosophers,” the relationship of Sartre and Foucault to popular struggles, nostalgia for the ebbing world of the factory, the slippage of the artistic avant-garde into defending corporate privilege, and the ambiguous sociological critique of Pierre Bourdieu. As ever, Rancière challenges all patterns of thought in which one-time radicalism has become empty convention.

Book The Intellectual and His People

Download or read book The Intellectual and His People written by Jacques Rancière and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2012-06-19 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic collection of essay by Jacques Ranciere, that focuses on the ways in which radical philosophers understand the people they profess to speak for. The Intellectual and His People engages in an incisive and original way with current political and cultural issues, including the "discovery" of totalitarianism by the "new philosophers," the relationship of Sartre and Foucault to popular struggles, nostalgia for the ebbing world of the factory, the slippage of the artistic avant-garde into defending corporate privilege, and the ambiguous sociological critique of Pierre Bourdieu. As ever, Rancire challenges all patterns of thought in which one-time radicalism has become empty convention.

Book The Return of the Red Army Faction  RAF

Download or read book The Return of the Red Army Faction RAF written by Ilka Rasch and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ... investigates representations of politically motivated violence since the 1960s ... focuses on post-Wall representations of the Red Army Faction (RAF), Germany's oldest and most notorious 'urban guerilla' group, including fictional films, 'docu-fictions, ' literary sources, and a controversial museum exhibit ... An assessment of representations of the RAF in post-Wall discourses provides insight into the impact of National Socialism, the student movement, and the RAF on contemporary developments while laying the foundation for a fuller understanding of the current crisis of transmission triggered by the (re)unification process ... The RAF consciously deployed Holocaust iconography and aesthetic strategies central to fascism to create symbolically charged images linking contemporary events and politically motivated violence to Germany's National Socialist past. This link to the defining historical moment of German twentieth century history explains why artists have repeatedly turned to representations of the RAF to negotiate post-Wall narratives of German history and identity formation ... assessment of the post-Wall artifacts suggests that their conflicting symbolic values represent a crisis of transmission in which historical narratives and generational objects crucial to the New Left are questioned. The crisis over the legacy of New Left was triggered by the collapse of socialist regimes around 1989. The Fischer affair has become one of the most prominent examples, because it links contemporary politics and politicians to Germany's violent past, raising questions about the student movement's and the New Left's responsibility for and relationship to politically-motivated violence. Since the student movement and its violent aftermath serve as a central touchstone of German politics and culture, the current crisis of transmission challenges historical narratives crucial to German identity formation.

Book Guerrilla Aesthetics

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  • Author : Kimberly Mair
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2016-05-01
  • ISBN : 0773598758
  • Pages : 382 pages

Download or read book Guerrilla Aesthetics written by Kimberly Mair and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The violent operations performed in the 1970s by West German urban guerrillas – such as the Red Army Faction (RAF) – were so vivid and incomprehensible that it seemed to be more urgent to produce spectacle than to be politically successful. In Guerrilla Aesthetics, Kimberly Mair challenges the assumption that these guerrillas sought to realize specific political goals. Instead, she tracks the guerrilla fighters’ plunge into an avant-garde-inspired negativity that rejected rationality and provoked the state. Focusing on the Red Decade of 1967 to 1977, which was characterized not only by terrorism and police brutality but also by counterculture aesthetics, Mair draws from archives, grey literatures, popular culture, art, and memorial and curatorial practices to explore the sensorial aspects of guerrilla communications performed by the RAF, as well as the 2nd of June Movement and the Socialist Patients' Collective. Turning to cultural and artistic responses to the decade and its legacy of raw public feelings, Mair also examines works by Eleanor Antin, Erin Cosgrove, Christoph Draeger, Bruce LaBruce, Gerhard Richter, and others. Reconsidering an enigmatic period in the history of terrorism, Guerrilla Aesthetics innovatively engages with the inherent connections between violence, performance, the senses, and memory.

Book Amnesty International

Download or read book Amnesty International written by J. Power and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of Amnesty International from its beginnings in 1961, describing the difficulties and disappointments, how the organization works, and its special campaigns. Includes case studies focusing on the Soviet Union, China, Africa, Brazil and South America and first hand information on current activities in Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua. The book is illustrated by photographs from Amnesty's archives

Book War and Terrorism in International Affairs

Download or read book War and Terrorism in International Affairs written by Gerardo Jorge Schamís and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: