Download or read book Summary of Peter Gay s Weimar Culture written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-05-09T22:59:00Z with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The Weimar Republic was an idea seeking to become reality. The decision to hold the constituent assembly there was made primarily for prudential reasons, but also symbolized a hope for a new start. #2 The Weimar Republic was hostile to the modern movement. The universities were nurseries of a militarist idealism and centers of resistance to the new in art or the social sciences. Jews, democrats, and socialists were kept out of the sacred precincts of higher learning. #3 The Expressionists were a band of outsiders. They were determined and active, and they wanted to rise above the bombast of their surroundings to cultivate their inner life and satisfy their dim longing for human and cultural renewal. #4 The modern movement was already underway before the war, and it was largely free from the political quarrel that the war brought. The Republic created little, and instead liberated what was already there.
Download or read book Weimar Culture The Outsider as Insider written by Peter Gay and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001-12-17 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A seminal work as melodious and haunting as the era it chronicles. First published in 1968, Weimar Culture is one of the masterworks of Peter Gay's distinguished career. A study of German culture between the two wars, the book brilliantly traces the rise of the artistic, literary, and musical culture that bloomed ever so briefly in the 1920s amid the chaos of Germany's tenuous post-World War I democracy, and crashed violently in the wake of Hitler's rise to power. Despite the ephemeral nature of the Weimar democracy, the influence of its culture was profound and far-reaching, ushering in a modern sensibility in the arts that dominated Western culture for most of the twentieth century. Vivid and eminently readable, Weimar Culture is the finest introduction for the casual reader and historian alike.
Download or read book Modernism the Lure of Heresy written by Peter Gay and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a brilliant, provocative long essay on the rise and fall and survival of modernism, by the English-languages' greatest living cultural historian.
Download or read book Culture and Society in the Weimar Republic written by Keith Bullivant and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Weimar Culture written by Peter Gay and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Schnitzler s Century The Making of Middle Class Culture 1815 1914 written by Peter Gay and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2002-11-17 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is cultural history of the first order, and it is liberal and humane history at its very best."—David Cannadine An essential work for anyone who wishes to understand the social history of the nineteenth century, Schnitzler's Century is the culmination of Peter Gay's thirty-five years of scholarship on bourgeois culture and society. Using Arthur Schnitzler, the sexually emboldened Viennese playwright, as his master of ceremonies, Gay offers a brilliant reexamination of the hundred-year period that began with the defeat of Napoleon and concluded with the conflagration of 1914. This is a defining work by one of America's greatest historians.
Download or read book Freud Jews and Other Germans written by Peter Gay and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays dealing with the integration of Jewish intellectuals in German culture and society during the 19th-20th centuries, and the self-hatred expressed by some of them. The introduction surveys 19th-century antisemitism in Germany, raising the question whether it should be considered an opening phase of the Holocaust. Discusses the ambivalent relations between Wagner and the Jewish conductor Hermann Levi, and the contribution of Max Liebermann (whose Jewish origins were emphasized by art critics) to modern art.
Download or read book Weimar Germany written by Eric D. Weitz and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Weimar Centennial edition with a new preface by the author."--Title page.
Download or read book Darkness Falling written by Peter Walther and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Gripping and all too timely' James Hawes 'A brilliant mix of detailed research and vivid storytelling' Julia Boyd 'History at its very best – and a fabulous translation, too' Graham Hurley In March 1930, after the collapse of the coalition that had ruled Germany since 1928, President Hindenburg asked Heinrich Bruning, bespectacled and scholarly leader of the Catholic Centre Party, to form a government. Some three years later, in January 1933, Hindenburg appointed as chancellor the demagogic, virulently anti-Semitic leader of the National Socialist party. Within weeks, Adolf Hitler has begun the process of dismantling the flawed democracy of the Weimar Republic and replacing it with a one-party totalitarian state. Darkness Falling depicts in compelling fashion the serial crises and mounting violence of a febrile era. Peter Walther examines the slow death of Weimar through the prism of nine colourful protagonists, including leading German politicians of right, left and centre, the clairvoyant and occultist, Erik Jan Hanussen and the formidable American journalist Dorothy Thompson. He profiles these heterogeneous characters in intriguing detail, pulling together the threads of their lives to chart the demise of German parliamentary democracy and the rise of National Socialist tyranny. Along the way we gain fascinating insights into the machinations in the corridors of power to keep the 'Bohemian corporal' from the chancellorship, and the venality of the Nazi elite and its fellow travellers from the demi-monde of early 1930s Berlin. Walther evokes the louche nightlife of the German capital – 'a playground for charlatans and prophets, madmen and crooks' – memorably and atmospherically. A masterly fusion of meticulously researched historical writing and vividly propulsive storytelling, Darkness Falling is a distinctive and enthralling account of Germany's slide from democracy to dictatorship. Translated by Dr Peter Lewis.
Download or read book Education of the Senses written by Peter Gay and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1999 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education of the Senses is the first volume in Peter Gay's panoramic study of the European and American middle classes from the 1820s to the outbreak of World War I. Drawing on psychoanalytic insights and a rich array of primary sources, Gay reexamines the sexual behavior and attitudes of the Victorians, overturning a myriad of stereotypes, especially about women. Book jacket.
Download or read book The Weimar Republic written by Detlev Peukert and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1993-09 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About half of Kolb's compact book is devoted to a "Historical Survey," chronologically divided at the conventional watersheds of 1923-24 and 1929-30. A briefer second part, a historiographical essay in seven topical chapters, is followed by a seven-page chronology, a 676-item classified and topical bibliography, and an index. The bibliography, updated to February 1987, includes some English-language titles not in the original German edition, and is a list of tremendous value. Frequent references to individual entries (as well as to some works not found there) tie the bibliography to the historiographical essay, which is characterized by fair and judicious appraisal of interpretations of the period, even when Kolb clearly disagrees. There is a chapter on the revolution of 1918 and its aftermath in the first section, and one on art and mass culture in the second; each section of the survey also has one chapter focusing on foreign policy, and one on domestic developments.
Download or read book The Tender Passion written by Peter Gay and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1986 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Gay begins with a compelling analysis of the separate love stories of two young men, one English and one German, and proceeds from there to a wide-ranging inquiry into what love meant to the Victorians, both as an ideal and as a reality."--Jacket.
Download or read book Before the Deluge written by Otto Friedrich and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1995-10-13 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating portrait of the turbulent political, social, and cultural life of the city of Berlin in the 1920s.
Download or read book Savage Reprisals Bleak House Madame Bovary Buddenbrooks written by Peter Gay and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2003-12-17 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revelatory work that examines the intricate relationship between history and literature, truth and fiction—with some surprising conclusions. Focusing on three literary masterpieces—Charles Dickens's Bleak House (1853), Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary (1857), and Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks (1901)—Peter Gay, a leading cultural historian, demonstrates that there is more than one way to read a novel. Typically, readers believe that fiction, especially the Realist novels that dominated Western culture for most of the nineteenth century and beyond, is based on historical truth and that great novels possess a documentary value. That trust, Gay brilliantly shows, is misplaced; novels take their own path to reality. Using Dickens, Flaubert, and Mann as his examples, Gay explores their world, their craftsmanship, and their minds. In the process, he discovers that all three share one overriding quality: a resentment and rage against the society that sustains the novel itself. Using their stylish writing as a form of revenge, they deal out savage reprisals, which have become part of our Western literary canon. A New York Times Notable Book and a Best Book of 2002.
Download or read book Weimar Culture the Outsider written by Peter Gay and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Weimar Culture and Quantum Mechanics written by Alexei Kojevnikov and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2011 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume reprints Paul Forman's classic papers on the history of physics in post-World War I Germany and the invention of quantum mechanics.
Download or read book Weimar Culture the Outside as Insider written by Peter Gay and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
