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Dr Thomas Rohkrämer
Reader in Modern European History
Degree: PhD Freiburg 1989, Habilitation Berne 1999
Current Teaching
Research Interests
The history of Germany in the 19th and 20th century, modern Germany within Central Europe, and Kulturkritik in comparative perspective. Current research interests are:
- A book-length study on The Fatal Attraction of National Socialism.
Publications
Books
- A Single Communal Faith? The German Right from Conservatism to National Socialism (Oxford and New York: Berghahn 2007).
- Eine andere Moderne? Zivilisationskritik, Natur und Technik in Deutschland 1880-1933 [An Alternative Modernity? Cultural Criticism, Nature and Techology in Germany, 1880-1933] (Paderborn: Schöningh, 1999).
- Der Militarismus der "kleinen Leute". Die Kriegervereine im Deutschen Kaiserreich 1871-1914 [Militarism of the Common People. Veterans' and Reservists' Organisations in the German Empire, 1871-1914] (München: Oldenbourg 1990).
Recent Articles and Chapters in Books
- 'German Cultural Criticism: the Desire for a Sense of Place and Community' in Rajesh Heynicks / Tom Avermaete (eds.), Modern Communities in Interwar Europe, Leuven: Leuven University Press, forthcoming
- (with Corinna M. Peniston-Bird & Felix Robin Schulz), 'Competing Conceptions of the Alps as national and transnational Space; The Austrian and German Alpenverein, 1873-1938' in Austrian Studies, forthcoming
- (with Felix Schulz), Space, Place and Identities, in: History Compass 7/5 (2009), 1338-1449
- 'Politische Religion, Civic Religion oder ein neuer Glaube - Walther Rathenaus Vision einer anderen Moderne' [Political Religion, Civic Religion or a Single Communal Faith - Walther Rathenau's Vision of an Alternative Modernity] in Walter Delabar / Dieter Heimboeckel (eds.), Der Prototyp der Moderne. Walther Rathenau in der Literatur und Kultur des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts (Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2009), 195-214
- Kulturkritik als Schlüssel zum Verständnis viktorianischer Gesellschaftskritik?, in: Zeitschrift für Kulturphilosophie, 2007/2,111-119
- Ludwig Klages und die Suche nach einem neuen Glauben, in: Hestia. Jahrbuch der Klages-Gesellschaft, Bd. 22, 2007, 163-177
- 'Bewahrung, Neugestaltung, Restauration? Konservative Raum- und Heimatvorstellungen in Deutschland 1900-1933', in Wolfgang Hardtwig (ed.), Ordnungen in der Krise. Zur politischen Kulturgeschichte Deutschlands 1900-1933 (Munich: Oldenbourg, 2007), 49-68.
- 'Heidegger, National Socialism and Environmentalism', in: Franz-Josef Brüggemeier, Mark Cioc and Thomas Zeller (eds), How Green were the Nazis? (Athens: Ohio University Press 2005), pp. 171-203.
- 'Richard Wagner oder die Mobilisierung der Kunst für eine konservative Revolution' [Richard Wagner or the Mobilisation of Art for a Conservative Revolution], in Judith Baumgartner and Bernd Wedemeyer-Kolwe (eds.), Aufbrüche, Seitenpfade, Abwege. Suchbewegungen und Subkulturen im 20. Jahrhundert: Festschrift für Ulrich Linse (Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann 2004), pp. 13-20.
- 'Nihilismus und Wille zur Macht. Zum Verhältnis von Sinnkrise und Schaffensfreude beim frühen Ernst Jünger' [Nihilism and Will to Power. The Relationship between Crisis and Creativity in the Early Work of Ernst Jünger], in Tobias Wimbauer (ed.), Anarch im Widerspruch. Neue Beiträge zu Werk und Leben der Gebrüder Jünger, Das Luminar: Schriften zu Ernst und Friedrich Georg Jünger, Bd. 3 (Schnellroda: Edition Antaios 2004), pp. 213-33.
- 'Strangelove, or How Ernst Jünger Learned to Love Total War' in Roger Chickering and Stig Förster (eds.), The Shadows of Total War: Europe, East Asia, and the United States, 1919-1939 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2003), pp. 179-196.
- 'Die Vision einer deutschen Technik: Ingenieure und das "Dritte Reich"' [The Vision of a 'German Technology': Engineers and the Third Reich], in Wolfgang Hardtwig (ed.), Utopie und politische Herrschaft im Europa der Zwischenkriegszeit (Munich: Oldenbourg, 2003), pp. 287-307.
- 'Contemporary Environmentalism and its Links with the German Past', in Axel Goodbody (ed.), The Culture of German Environmentalism: Anxities, Visions, Realities (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2002), 47-62
- 'Kult der Gewalt und Sehnsucht nach Ordnung - der soldatische Nationalismus in der Weimarer Republik' [Cult of Violence and Desire for Order - Soldierly Nationalism in the Weimar Republic], Sociologicus, 51 (2001), 28-48.
Works Forthcoming:
-German Cultural Criticism: the desire for a sense of place and community
- with Corinna Peniston-Bird and Felix Schulz, Glorified, Contested and Mobilised: The Use of the Alps in the Deutsch-Österreichischen Alpenverein from the 1860s to 1933
-Political Religion or a Single Communal Faith? Towards an Understanding of the Fatal Attraction of National Socialism
Potential Doctoral Proposals
- German history in the 19th and 20th century, in particular political culture since 1871.
- Critical discourses on modernity in comparative perspective.
- Conservatism and the political Right in comparative perspective.
Associated Keywords: Cultural theory, Culture, Environment, Ernst Jünger, Germany, History, Ludwig Klages, Religion and politics, Twentieth century, Walther Rathenau, War
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Tel: (5)92407
Room: Furness, B29
Office Hour: Th. 1-2, Fr. 12-1
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