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Book Brief van Willem Gerard van Nouhuys 1854 1914 aan Herman Teirlinck 1879 1967

Download or read book Brief van Willem Gerard van Nouhuys 1854 1914 aan Herman Teirlinck 1879 1967 written by Willem Gerard Nouhuys and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Brief van Willem Gerard van Nouhuys 1854 1914 aan Wereldbibliotheek

Download or read book Brief van Willem Gerard van Nouhuys 1854 1914 aan Wereldbibliotheek written by Wereldbibliotheek and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Brief van Johanna 1818 1872 aan Jan Christiaan Loman 1825 1897

Download or read book Brief van Johanna 1818 1872 aan Jan Christiaan Loman 1825 1897 written by and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliography of Publications

Download or read book Bibliography of Publications written by George Washington University. Human Resources Research Office and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Leiden Oriental Connections

Download or read book Leiden Oriental Connections written by W. Otterspeer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1989 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For review see: J. van Goor, in: Bijdragen en mededelingen betreffende de geschiedenis der Nederlanden, jrg. 110, afl. 1 (1995); p. 137-140.

Book The Seduction of Culture in German History

Download or read book The Seduction of Culture in German History written by Wolf Lepenies and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-26 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Allied bombing of Germany, Hitler was more distressed by the loss of cultural treasures than by the leveling of homes. Remarkably, his propagandists broadcast this fact, convinced that it would reveal not his callousness but his sensitivity: the destruction had failed to crush his artist's spirit. It is impossible to begin to make sense of this thinking without understanding what Wolf Lepenies calls The Seduction of Culture in German History. This fascinating and unusual book tells the story of an arguably catastrophic German habit--that of valuing cultural achievement above all else and envisioning it as a noble substitute for politics. Lepenies examines how this tendency has affected German history from the late eighteenth century to today. He argues that the German preference for art over politics is essential to understanding the peculiar nature of Nazism, including its aesthetic appeal to many Germans (and others) and the fact that Hitler and many in his circle were failed artists and intellectuals who seem to have practiced their politics as a substitute form of art. In a series of historical, intellectual, literary, and artistic vignettes told in an essayistic style full of compelling aphorisms, this wide-ranging book pays special attention to Goethe and Thomas Mann, and also contains brilliant discussions of such diverse figures as Novalis, Walt Whitman, Leo Strauss, and Allan Bloom. The Seduction of Culture in German History is concerned not only with Germany, but with how the German obsession with culture, sense of cultural superiority, and scorn of politics have affected its relations with other countries, France and the United States in particular.