Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider
240 pages
|Published: 1 Jan 1968
|Editions
|Details
This edition
ISBN: 9780393322392
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: W. W. Norton Company
Publication date: 17 December 2001
Description
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.