Germany's Other Modernism

<h2>European modernism is generally seen as having originated only in the great cities but in the years before World War I the small city of Jena incubated its own modernist movement. This Jena Paradigm coalesced around the visionary publisher Eugen Diederichs and included writers such as Helene Voigt-Diederichs and young intellectuals like Rudolf Carnap Wilhelm Flitner Hans Freyer Karl Korsch and Elisabeth Busse-Wilson. Now in English translation Meike G. Werner's deeply contextual methodologically innovative study opens up a world of innovation showing a wider spectrum of modernist culture than the exclusive focus on metropolitan centers has allowed.</h2><p><br></p>