...Matthew Charles; Howard Eiland Although it is well known that Walter Benjamin played a leading role in the antebellum German Youth Movement, withdrawing from the presidency of the Berlin Independent Students Association and from other reformist activities only with the onset of World War I...

... of the antebellum German Youth Movement at both universities. The youth movement was entering its most intensive phase in the autumn of 1913, with national conferences at Breslau and Kas- sel in central Germany and with the spreading popularity of the so- called Sprechsaal (discussion hall), a lecture...

... of the German Youth Movement . New Brunswick, NJ : Transaction Books . Marx Karl . 1977 . Selected Writings . Edited by McLellan David . New York : Oxford University Press . Nietzsche Friedrich . 1971 . Werke V/1, Morgenröthe, Nachgelassene Fragmente (Anfang 1880 bis Frühjahr...

... of education in Germany between 1890 and 1933, and on the role of boarding schools, see Cauvin 1971, esp. chap. 2. 4. Concerning Benjamin’s involvement with the German Youth Movement and his rela- tionship with Wyneken, from a historical viewpoint primarily, see Utley 1979, 1999; Ham 2007; Wohlfarth 1992...

... Community (Die Freie Schulgemeinde), from which he was forced to retire in 1910. He exerted a decisive influence on the antebellum German Youth Movement through his lec- ture tours and writings—in particular, his book Schule und Jugendkultur (1913). He over- saw the running of several journals...

... for the German Youth Movement are “the place in [his] oeuvre where explicit references to Nietzsche cluster most densely” but also where “a uniquely Benjaminian engagement with the thinker is marshalled and simulta- neously obscured” (2013: 17–18). That which Irving Wohlfarth has called the “politics...

... at the time of his active involve- ment with the antebellum German Youth Movement (two years before the composition of the language essay) is exemplary: make educational reform the lever to meaningful social change.14 Encourage children everywhere, from an early age, to think and to question philosophically...

... a culmination of the metapolitical radicalism that motivated Benjamin’s participation in the antebellum German youth movement and his high-minded­ protest against the conformism of school and family, that is, against the philistine rule of his own social class. But in place of the Tol- stoyan ethic...

...Bécquer Seguín This introduction briefly provides the context of the Great Recession in Spain, which spurred one of the largest protests movements in the country's history. Known locally as the 15M and internationally as the indignados movement, the occupation of plazas in the spring and summer...

... of their instigators, Benjamin always remained ambivalent toward such mirages of collectivization. This ambivalence can be traced to his early experiences within the youth movement, before the outbreak of World War I. His first texts, often written under the pseudo- nym Ardor, reveal his passionate...

... James Kloppenberg has noted that Du Bois frequently mentioned the endless military parades in Berlin during the 1890s.8 It was, to be sure, a decade in which right-wing populist and elitist movements flourished. Among the lobbying groups established in this decade were the Pan-Germans, the Navy...

... could do worse than pointing to his enduring interest in pedagogy. From his earliest metaphysical articles and speeches written for the Jugendkulturbewegung, the “youth culture movement,” to his later materialist writings on proletarian children’s theater and Brecht’s communist “behaviorism...

..., the capital of the Bukovina in 1920, he was raised in a Jewish family that insisted both on young Paul receiving the best secular education, with the mother inculcating her love of the German language and culture, and on his Jewish roots: both his parents came from strong orthodox and, on one side, Hassidic...

... days before the 15M movement. See Revista de crítica literaria marxista (monográfico dedicado a Armando López Salinas y el realismo social en España ), no. 5 (2011). Available online, http://www.fim.org.es/media/1/1556.pdf . 8. Germán Labrador identifies the connections that the 15M movement...

... reigned roughly from 1999 to his ousting in 2011. Clover ( 2016 : 267–306) attributes the post-Surkov illiberal turn to the increasing gravity of the violence of Kremlin-backed nationalist street gangs, from Dugin's more mild Eurasian Youth Movement to the more extreme Russian Image. 27. Dugin...

... to the officially orchestrated New Folk Songs movement (1958), this understanding of the correspondence as a Romantic bildungsroman with two protagonists probes the question of the possibilities of a socialist developmental narrative, of agency and participation in the emergence of new subjectivity, and of the role...

... taught at numerous universities around the world. But wouldn’t a piece of work as irregular and off-putting­ as Origin of the German Trauer- spiel receive the same treatment today? It may be worth keeping this ques- tion in mind when considering the relation between the university and studying...

...–and we thought it was time to critically engage in print what we took to be the emergent revolutionary intelligence we’d both been tracking for nearly a decade. Events overtook us, and when the January 2011 insurrection in Kasserine had clearly transformed into a national revolutionary movement, I...

... monolithicity to which the word gla- cial used to be applied, before glacial became synonymous with the eva- nescent and fragile. There is also a productive anticipatory dimension in positing a variety of emergences or epochalisms, present or past. Here I take some inspiration from German Democratic...

... and, at home, against the Civil Rights movement. I had read and admired Edward’s early work on Joseph Conrad and some of the essays that eventually were incorporated into Beginnings and felt instinctively not simply an intellectual affiliation but also a curiously un- specifiable spiritual kinship...