The behaviour of political parties and MPs in the parliaments of the Weimar Republic

Copyright @ 2012 The Authors. This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final published article is available from the link below.Analysing the roll-call votes of the MPs of the Weimar Republic we find: (1) that party competition in the Weimar parliaments can be structured along two dimensions: an economic left–right and a pro-/anti-democratic. Remarkably, this is stable throughout the entire lifespan of the Republic and not just in the later years and despite the varying content of votes across the lifespan of the Republic, and (2) that nearly all parties were troubled by intra-party divisions, though, in particular, the national socialists and communists became homogeneous in the final years of the Republic.Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstan

O verdadeiro no mais próximo

O artigo pretende aferir algumas das correspondências e problematizações presentes no livro de S. Kracauer, O ornamento da massa, e nas cartas trocadas entre ele e Theodor W. Adorno.<br>The article aims at discussing possible similarities and common problems between Kracauer's book, The mass ornament, and the letters he wrote to Theodor W. Adorno

The present: an "unknown time" in the German Kaiserreich around 1900

In her contribution, Rothauge focuses on assumptions of ‘the present’ in the German Kaiserreich around 1900. Historical sources reveal that many contemporaries considered present time(s) to be highly dynamic and heterogeneous, thus confusing and partly ‘unknown’. Rothauge links this to several official initiatives preoccupied with synchronising different time regimes. She argues that these attempts initially led to a yet again increased pluralisation of both the notions and uses of ‘the present’. According to this, the master narrative of (high) modernity as being characterised by just one specific temporal experience, namely that of an ever increasing acceleration, needs to be looked at in a more differentiated way, paying more attention to the fact that people actively take part in the construction of temporal discourses