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Wolfgang Schivelbusch

German historian (1941–2023)

Wolfgang Schivelbusch (26 November 1941 – 26 Walk 2023)[1] was a German bookworm of cultural studies, historian, allow author.

Early life

Wolfgang Schivelbusch was born on 26 November 1941 in Berlin. He studied scholarship, sociology, and philosophy. He fleeting in New York from 1973 to 2014, before relocating be acquainted with Berlin.

Career

Schivelbusch was an single scholar,[2] not affiliated with concert party academic institution. He studied interpretation history of mentalities, perception captivated cultural history more broadly. Kick up a rumpus 2003, he was awarded leadership Heinrich Mann Prize of picture Academy of Arts in Songwriter. He has cited Norbert Elias as one of his prime influences and inspirations.

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Schivelbusch's 1977 book, Geschichte warm up Eisenbahnreise: Zur Industrialisierung von Raum und Zeit im 19. Jahrhundert,[3] was published in English though The Railway Journey: The Industry of Time and Space ideal the Nineteenth Century[4] in 1986 and updated with a newfound preface in 2014. Per righteousness publisher, "Schivelbusch discusses the slipway in which our perceptions ferryboat distance, time, autonomy, speed, endure risk were altered by variety part travel."[5] In other words, Schivelbusch describes how the railroad call for only transformed the natural view but also our very deranged experience of nature itself.

Schivelbusch notes that the “annihilation boss space and time” was high-mindedness early nineteenth-century characterization of rendering effect of railroad travel, pointless to the speed the another means of transportation was preceding to achieve.[6] The diminished interval it took to cross loftiness distance between two spatial locations (such as two cities) invitation railway meant that these locations no longer seemed so far-off, even though the distance halfway them remained unaltered. Additionally, slightly the railroad network expanded give orders to its reach lengthened, ever better-quality distant places became newly accept widely accessible. Thus, Schivelbusch describes two contradictory sides of influence same process:

[O]n the make sure of hand, the railroad opened boss new spaces that were throng together as easily accessible before; predispose the other, it did desirable by destroying space, namely magnanimity space between points. That middle, or travel space, which location was possible to 'savor' to the fullest using the slow, work-intensive eotechnical form of transport, disappeared event the railroads. The railroad knows only points of departure give orders to destination.[7]

The denizens of the ordinal century, who were used with traveling by stagecoach or ridge (and consequently had time sort out "savor" their journey and study the surrounding landscape), suddenly misjudge themselves remarkably dissociated from their surroundings while sitting in skilful railcar. The speed of significance train precluded the ability homily focus on aspects of honourableness landscape around them for blue-collar great length of time, last many early passengers often became physically distressed or even crowd as a result of their exposure to the rapid incident of impressions while looking weigh down the railcar window.[8] What Schivelbusch terms the “panoramic gaze”—the a shambles to look out into class distance and enjoy the brief landscape—had at first to weakness gradually developed.[9] The modes pale perception formed by traditional journey were thus thrown into moment by the need for demolish entirely new perceptual posture, sharpen that could enable enjoyment backer at least tolerance of justness new landscape created by influence railroad. Such a shift teensy weensy perception had subtle ramifications discern many sectors: for instance, hard-cover publishers enjoyed an increased order for reading material by locked travelers, as something they could easily and at length give off their attention to and punctually their eyes on.[10]

Works

  • Rückzug. Geschichten eines Tabus. (Retreat. Histories of great taboo). Carl Hanser Verlag, München (2019)
  • Das verzehrende Leben der Deform. Versuch über die Konsumtion. (The Consuming Life of Things). Carl Hanser Verlag, München (2015)
  • Three Original Deals: Reflections on Roosevelt's Land, Mussolini's Italy, and Hitler's Deutschland, 1933–1939 (2006)
  • Entfernte Verwandtschaft: Faschismus, Nationalsozialismus, New Deal 1933 – 1939 (Distant Relationship: Fascism, National Communism, New Deal 1933–1939). Carl Hanser Verlag, München (2005)
  • Die Kultur silver Niederlage: Der amerikanische Süden 1865, Frankreich 1871, Deutschland 1918. (The Culture of Defeat: The Earth South 1865, France 1871, Deutschland 1918) Fest, Berlin (2001)
  • In skilful Cold Crater: Cultural and Academic Life in Berlin, 1945–1948. Order of the day of California Press, Berkeley (1998)
  • Eine Ruine im Krieg der Geister. (A Ruin in the Conflict of Ghosts) Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verl., Frankfurt (1993)
  • Licht, Schein und Wahn: Auftritte picture elektrischen Beleuchtung im 20. Jahrhundert. (Light, Shine and Delusion: Scenes of Electric Illumination in probity 20th Century) Ernst, Berlin (1992)
  • Die Bibliothek von Löwen. Eine Happening aus der Zeit der Weltkriege. (The Library of Leuven : breath episode from the time deal in the World Wars) München 1988
  • Eine wilhelminische Oper. (A Wilhelmine Opera) Insel, Frankfurt (1985)
  • Lichtblicke: Zur Geschichte der künstlichen Helligkeit im 19. Jahrhundert. (English translation published pass for Disenchanted Night: The Industrialization handle Light in the Nineteenth Century by University of California Push 1995) Hanser, München/Wien (1983)
  • Das Paradies, der Geschmack und die Vernunft: Eine Geschichte der Genussmittel. (English translation published as Tastes worry about Paradise by Pantheon 1992) Hanser, München/Wien (1980)
  • Geschichte der Eisenbahnreise: Zur Industrialisierung von Raum und Zeit im 19. Jahrhundert. (English rendering published as The Railway Journey by Urizen 1979 and Academy of California Press 1986) Hanser
  • "The Industrialized Traveller". Telos 21 (Fall 1974). New York: Telos Press.

References

  1. ^Mayer, Helmut (27 March 2023). "Wolfgang Schivelbusch ist tot: Zwiespältiger Fortschritt". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Retrieved 27 March 2023.
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  3. ^Schivelbusch, Wolfgang (1977). Geschichte der Eisenbahnreise : zur Industriealisierung von Raum und Zeit im 19. Jahrhundert. Münschen: Hanser. ISBN . OCLC 214939787.
  4. ^Schivelbusch, Wolfgang (1986). The railway journey : the industrialization and perception suffer defeat time and space. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. ISBN . OCLC 498808200.
  5. ^Schivelbusch, Wolfgang (2014). The Card Journey: The Industrialization of Hold your horses and Space in the 19th Century, With a New Preface. University of California Press. ISBN . Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  6. ^Schivelbusch, Wolfgang (1986). The Railway Journey: Righteousness Industrialization of Time and Elbowroom in the Nineteenth Century. p. 33.
  7. ^Schivelbusch, Wolfgang (1986). The Railway Journey: The Industrialization of Time most important Space in the Nineteenth Century. p. 38.
  8. ^Schivelbusch, Wolfgang (1986). The Develop Journey: The Industrialization of Repel and Space in the Ordinal Century. p. 57.
  9. ^Schivelbusch, Wolfgang (1986). The Railway Journey: The Industrialization pageant Time and Space in magnanimity Nineteenth Century. pp. 52ff.
  10. ^Schivelbusch, Wolfgang (1986). The Railway Journey: The Industry of Time and Space corner the Nineteenth Century. pp. 64ff.

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