Weimar Culture
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A landmark work of cultural history, Weimar Culture chronicles the dazzling and turbulent intellectual life of Germany's Weimar Republic between the two World Wars. Peter Gay presents a vivid portrait of the outsiders — the artists, writers, architects, and thinkers — who became insiders, reshaping German society through radical innovation in art, philosophy, film, and politics. With authoritative precision, Gay illustrates how the creative energy of figures such as Bertolt Brecht, Walter Gropius, and Sigmund Freud flourished against a backdrop of political instability and rising extremism. The work argues that the very brilliance of Weimar culture was inseparable from its fragility, making its eventual destruction at the hands of National Socialism all the more tragic. Scholarly yet deeply engaging, this is an essential account of one of the most creatively fertile — and ultimately doomed — periods in modern history.
Author: Peter Gay
Format: Paperback
Genre: European history
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A landmark work of cultural history, Weimar Culture chronicles the dazzling and turbulent intellectual life of Germany's Weimar Republic between the two World Wars. Peter Gay presents a vivid portrait of the outsiders — the artists, writers, architects, and thinkers — who became insiders, reshaping German society through radical innovation in art, philosophy, film, and politics. With authoritative precision, Gay illustrates how the creative energy of figures such as Bertolt Brecht, Walter Gropius, and Sigmund Freud flourished against a backdrop of political instability and rising extremism. The work argues that the very brilliance of Weimar culture was inseparable from its fragility, making its eventual destruction at the hands of National Socialism all the more tragic. Scholarly yet deeply engaging, this is an essential account of one of the most creatively fertile — and ultimately doomed — periods in modern history.