Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider

ISBN-13: 9780393322392 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 240 str.

Peter Gay

Opis

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.

O autorze

Peter Gay, 1923 in Berlin geboren, emigrierte 1939, als Jude von Verfolgung bedroht, in die Vereinigten Staaten. Er war Professor für Geschichte an der Yale University in New Haven und ist derzeit Direktor des Center for Scholars and Writers an der New York Public Library. Er ist Ehrenmitglied der Amerikanischen Psychoanalytischen Gesellschaft und gilt als einer der besten Kenner der deutsch-jüdischen Kultur. 1999 erhielt er den Geschwister-Scholl-Preis.