"This inspiring collection illuminates a topic whose relevance for today cannot be overstated. Its broad literary scopeGoethe, Schiller, Kleist, Döblin, Brechtand engagement with genres including visual culture, philosophy, social movements, and film illuminate a wide-reaching dialectics of revolution and society. Powerful and unpredictable, roiling beneath or erupting through, resistance profoundly constitutes our ever-changing world fabric. The trenchant and often surprising, firmly contextualized readings in this book explore culture as privileged site of rebellion in theory and praxis. As scholarly "angels of history," they offer new ways of seeing, particularly in their expert scrutiny of "canonical" texts for variegated and sustained engagement with radical change."Jennifer Ruth Hosek, Queen's University"This interdisciplinary volume challenges the widespread notion of German culture as inherently authoritarian and averse to revolution. Featuring an impressive range of approacheshistorical, sociological, psychoanalytical, gendered, literaryit offers fresh perspectives on texts by such iconic German authors as Goethe, Schiller, Kleist, and Brecht and on actual moments of rebellion and revolution in German and European history, from the peasant revolt of 1525 to the student protests of 1968. While they recover what is revolutionary about these texts and historical moments, however, the book's authors adeptly demonstrate the complexity and ambivalence with which the revolutionary idea itself is laden. The book shows how German culture grapples with revolution's potential liberation and its potential violence, providing just the right balance of celebration and restraint. A laudable scholarly achievement."Jill Suzanne Smith, Bowdoin College
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