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(Im)permanenceCultures in/out of TimeEdited by Judith Schachter and Stephen Brockmann(Im)permanence: Culturesin/out of Time explores theinterplay between permanenceand impermanencein cultural and artisticpractices in the West andelsewhere.This volume engendersquestions of the transitionfrom traditionaland contemporary takeson permanence in art,the preservation of ephemeral artwork, permanence andimpermanence as understood in the Western, East Asian,and American Indian cultures, and art forms and permanence.This volume addresses particularly crucial artists,including Robert Smithson and Andy Goldsworthy, as wellas a wide variety of historical epochs and cultures, fromthe destroyed Buddhas at Bamiyan through attempts atpreservation and commemoration in the wake of historicalcatastrophes like 9/11 and the genocide in Cambodia to thecurrent trend toward globalization in contemporary art.Contributors include Bill Anthes, Jenny Blain, Lowry Burgess,Erica DiBenedetto, Erika Doss, Libby Karlinger Escobedo,Margaret Headstrom, Tienfong Ho, Xiaofei Kang, Pip Laurenson,Margaret Lindauer, Daniel Listoe, Clark Lunberry,Howard S. Melzer, Lenore Metrick, Mary O’Neill, Anna Perricci,Jan Schall, Franco Sciannameo, Terry Smith, Donald S.Sutton, Andrew Todd, Alexander Vari, and Robert J. Wallis.Judith Schachter is Professor of Anthropology, Historyand Art at Carnegie Mellon University and Director of theCenter for the Arts in Society. Her publications includeRuth Benedict (1983), Kinship with Strangers (1994), A TownWithout Steel: Envisioning Homestead, with C. Brodsky(1998), and A Sealed and Secret Kinship (2000).Stephen Brockmann is Professor of German at CarnegieMellon University. He is the author of Nuremberg: The ImaginaryCapital (2006), German Literary Culture at the Zero Hour(2004), and Literature and German Reunification (1999).Cult of the WillNervousness and the Forging of a Modern Self inGermany, 1890–1914Michael CowanCult of the Will is the firstcomprehensive studyof modernity’s preoccupationwith willpower.From Nietzsche’s “will topower” to the fantasy ofa “triumph of the will” underNazism, the will—itspathologies and potentialcures—was a topic of urgentdebates in Europeanmodernity.In this study, MichaelCowan examines theemergence of “will therapy” and its impact on arts andculture in Germany after 1900. The book’s five chapterslead readers through cross sections of modern Germancultural history, including not only literature and aestheticsbut also self-help medicine, economics, body culture,and pedagogy. Modernity’s fixation on willpower helpedprepare the way for fascism, but this trajectory is notCowan’s main concern. His focus falls rather on morewidespread “technologies of the self” and their role in theeffort to re-imagine agency for a modern subject caught upin increasingly complex systemic networks.Michael Cowan is Assistant Professor of German Studiesat McGill University. With Kai Marcel Sicks, he is co-editorof Leibhaftige Moderne: Körper in Kunst und Massenmedien1918–1933 (2005).320 pages | 40 illustrations | 6 x 9 | Juneisbn 978-0-271-03206-1 | cloth: $65.00sArt History/Literature/PhilosophyAlso of InterestMuseums of the Mind: GermanModernity and the Dynamics ofCollectingPeter M. McIsaacisbn 978-0-271-02991-7 | cloth: $60.00s284 pages | 6 color/106 b&w illustrations | 7.5 x 10 | Augustisbn 978-0-9797664-0-4 | cloth: $60.00sDistributed for the Center for the Arts in Society,Carnegie Mellon UniversityArt History/Museum Studies/Anthropology | penn state university press