“New Objectivity”: Ambivalent Accommodations with Modernity

T hese lines from the beginning of a piece of autobiographically based fiction about life in Berlin at the end of Germany’s Weimar Republic were written by an Englishman. Although Christopher Isherwood’s observations were of course those of a foreigner who stood apart from what was going on, the lines above capture some significant aspects not only of Weimar culture but also of one of the predominant attitudes with regard to that culture among German intellectuals of the time. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.