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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... become powerful in Germany , 23 percent said yes , 61 percent said no . By 1992 the pattern had reversed , with 53 ... becoming more so ... דיי In the short run , this is unlikely to change . Another survey , this time of 2,000 private ...
... become — and continues to be — an important focus of debate , even now , more than sixty years after it happened . If we are ob- sessed with Hitler , as we seem to be , can it be said we are likewise obsessed with the Holocaust ? At ...
... becoming ever more central in American public discourse — particularly , of course , among Jews , but also in the culture at large . " 16 He records how , in recent years , “ Holocaust survivor " has become an honorific title ...
... become the embarrassing object of public debate.”27 The desire, in West Germany, for a more determined confrontation with the German past only began, Evans says, with the Eichmann trial in Israel in 1960 and the Auschwitz trials in ...
... become a number one best seller in Austria and Germany, and he maintained that on a series of panel discussions called to discuss his thesis his critics conceded many points. 43 It is one thing to select the best sentences from reviews ...
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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 |