COOL CONDUCT by Helmut Lethen, Don Reneau (Trans) ( 9780520201095 )

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Title:

COOL CONDUCT
THE CULTURE OF DISTANCE IN WEIMAR GERMANY

By:

Helmut Lethen, Don Reneau (Trans)

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Hardback

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0520201094

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Publisher:

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS

Pub. date:

27 March, 2002

Series:

Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism v. 17

Pages:

263

Translated from:

German

Description:

This an interpretation of attitudes and mentalities that informed the Weimar Republic. It is intended by the author to be a cultivated antidote to the heated atmosphere of post-World War Germany, as a way of burying shame and animosity that might otherwise make social contact impossible.

Synopsis:

"Cool Conduct" is an elegant interpretation of attitudes and mentalities that informed the Weimar Republic by a scholar well known for his profound knowledge of this period. Helmut Lethen writes of "cool conduct" as a cultivated antidote to the heated atmosphere of post-World War I Germany, as a way of burying shame and animosity that might otherwise make social contact impossible.

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14 b/w photographs

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University of California Press

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