The German Genius Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution, and the Twentieth Century

Peter Watson

ISBN 10: 0060760230 / ISBN 13: 9780060760236

Published by HarperCollins, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The German Genius Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution, and the Twentieth Century
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060760230
• ISBN 13: 9780060760236
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

The German Genius is a virtuoso cultural history of German ideas and influence, from 1750 to the present day, by acclaimed historian Peter Watson (Making of the Modern Mind, Ideas). From Bach, Goethe, and Schopenhauer to Nietzsche, Freud, and Einstein, from the arts and humanities to science and philosophy, The German Genius is a lively and accessible review of over 250 years of German intellectual history. In the process, it explains the devastating effects of World War II, which transformed a vibrant and brilliantly artistic culture into a vehicle of warfare and destruction, and it shows how the German culture advanced in the war’s aftermath.

About the Author

Peter Watson has been a senioreditor at the London Sunday Times, a New York correspondentof the London Times, a columnist for theLondon Observer, and a contributor to the New YorkTimes. He has published three exposés on the world ofart and antiquities, and is the author of several booksof cultural and intellectual history. From 1997 to 2007he was a research associate at the McDonald Institutefor Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge.He lives in London.