Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider - Hardcover

Gay, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0313229724 ISBN 13: 9780313229725

Publisher: Praeger, 1981

Synopsis

A seminal work as melodious and haunting as the era it chronicles, now reissued with a new introduction.

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. "[A]n enormously rich, intriguing, and exciting essay.... A major contribution to the study..."—The New York Times 16 black and white illustrations

About this title

About the Author:

Peter Gay (1923―2015) was the author of more than twenty-five books, including the National Book Award winner The Enlightenment, the best-selling Weimar Culture, and the widely translated Freud: A Life for Our Time.

Review:

?Mr. Gay's absorbing essay...is of considerable topical interest, for Weimar culture' anticipated many intellectual trends and fashions now current in the West....He has recaptured the spirit of this exciting decade and he provides a reliable guide to it.?-New York Times Book Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Praeger
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0313229724
• ISBN 13: 9780313229725
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 259