The German Genius: Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution, and the Twentieth CenturyHarper Collins, 2011年7月26日 - 992 頁 From the end of the Baroque era and the death of Bach to the rise of Hitler, Germany was transformed from a poor relation among Western nations into a dominant intellectual and cultural force. By 1933, Germans had won more Nobel Prizes than the British and Americans combined. Yet this remarkable genius was cut down in its prime by Adolf Hitler and his disastrous Third Reich—a brutal legacy that has overshadowed the nation’s achievements ever since. In this absorbing cultural and intellectual history, Peter Watson goes back through time to explore the origins of the German genius, explaining how and why it flourished, how it shaped our lives, and, most important, how it continues to influence our world. Watson’s virtuoso sweep through modern German thought and culture will challenge and confound both the stereotypes the world has of Germany and those that Germany has of itself. |
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... achieved not by politics but by culture . ” German thought , the ninety - three said , was an indispensable element of the European spirit , " precisely because it differed so much from values and ideals that were pertinent for ...
... achieved the pre-eminence they did. Yes, people know that Germany lost a lot of talent under the Nazis (according to one account, 60,000 writ- ers, artists, musicians, and scientists were sent either into exile or to the death camps by ...
... achieved a prominent position in Ger- many by means of its domination of the state bureaucracy, the church, the military, the professoriate, and the professions. The self-understanding of this new stratum, which more than any other ...
... political systems then in existence elsewhere in Europe and in North America, reflecting above all the German idea that freedom and equality could best be achieved under conditions of order , such order being 60 the german genius.
... achieved under conditions of order , such order being maintained by an established authority , in the person of the monarch . Although he was a conservative by European standards , Friedrich did bring about great change . After his ...
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The Supreme Products of the Age of Paper | 111 |
New Light on the Structure of the Mind | 135 |
The Symphony | 153 |
Dissonance and the MostDiscussed Man in Music | 459 |
The Discovery of Radio Relativity and the Quantum | 475 |
Sensibility and Sensuality in Vienna | 489 |
Germanys Montmartre | 503 |
Berlin Busybody | 519 |
The Great War between Heroes and Traders | 531 |
The Culture of the Defeated | 547 |
Unprecedented Mental Alertness | 567 |
Song | 189 |
The Brandenburg Gate the Iron Cross and the German | 207 |
The Rise of the Educated | 223 |
The Evolution of Alienation | 239 |
A Unique Event in the History | 261 |
The Heroic Age of Biology | 271 |
Out from The Wretchedness of German Backwardness | 289 |
German Fever in France Britain and the United States | 311 |
Wagners Other RingFeuerbach Schopenhauer | 327 |
Helmholtz Clausius | 341 |
Siemens Hofmann Bayer Zeiss | 355 |
Krupp Benz Diesel Rathenau | 369 |
Virchow Koch Mendel Freud | 383 |
THE MISERIES AND MIRACLES OF MODERNITY | 399 |
The Abuses of History | 401 |
The Pathologies of Nationalism | 417 |
The First Coherent School of Sociology | 439 |
The Golden Age of TwentiethCentury Physics Philosophy and History | 595 |
A Problem in Need of a Solution | 611 |
The Brown Shift | 629 |
No Such Thing as Objectivity | 649 |
The Twilight of the Theologians | 673 |
The Fruits Failures and Infamy of German Wartime Science | 689 |
Exile and the Road into the Open | 699 |
CONTINUITY | 711 |
His Majestys Most Loyal Enemy Aliens | 743 |
From Heidegger to Habermas to Ratzinger | 757 |
A Germany Not Seen Before | 789 |
German Genius The Dazzle Deification | 817 |
Thirtyfive Underrated Germans | 851 |
Notes and References | 857 |
Index | 927 |