Culture and Inflation in Weimar Germany

Bernd Widdig is Associate Professor of German Studies and Director of the MIT-Germany Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of Mannerbunde und Massen: Zur Krise mannlicher Identitat in der Literatur der Moderne(1992).

List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Money Matters: Culture and Inflation PART ONE: History and Experience 2. Flirting with Disaster: The German Inflation, 1914-1923 3. Daily Explosions: Canetti's Inflation PART TWO: Money 4. Under the Sign of Zero: Money and Inflation PART THREE: Figures 5. Uncanny Encounters: Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler 6. Visions of Work: Hugo Stinnes and His Doubles PART FOUR: Accounts 7. Cultural Capital in Decline: Inflation and the Distress of Intellectuals 8. Witches Dancing: Gender and Inflation PART FIVE: Epilogue 9. Aftershocks: Inflation, National Socialism, and Beyond Notes Bibliography Index