Research Catalog

Title

Weimar culture : the outsider as insider / Peter Gay.

Author

Gay, Peter, 1923-2015

Publication

New York : Norton, 2001.

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Details

Description

xvi, 205 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

"From the Brecht-Weill 'Threepenny Opera' to the Warburg Institute, from the Bauhaus to 'The Magic Mountain,' the Weimar Republic (1918-1933) has become a legend for its intense creativity during a time of political upheaval. In this vivid account, the distinguished historian Peter Gay traces the rise of the artistic, literary, and musical culture that bloomed 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"--P. [4] of cover.

Subject

• Geschichte 1919-1933
• 1918-1933
• Geschichte 1919-1933
• Germany > Intellectual life
• Germany > Politics and government > 1918-1933

Genre/Form

Books.

Note

• Originally published: New York : Harper & Row, c1968.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-197) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

I. The Trauma of Birth: From Weimar to Weimar -- II. The Community of Reason: Conciliators and Critics -- III. The Secret Germany: Poetry as Power -- IV. The Hunger for Wholeness: Trials of Modernity -- V. The Revolt of the Son: Expressionist Years -- VI. The Revenge of the Father: Rise and Fall of Objectivity -- Appendices: I. A Short Political History of the Weimar Republic -- II. Bibliography.

ISBN

0393322394 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 48757061
• SCSB-10781251

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library