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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... born British Member of Parliament for the Birming- ham Edgbaston constituency, said that the Matusseks were “quite right to say the British are still obsessed with the Nazi period.”11 In 2006 John Ramsden, professor of modern history at ...
... born in the wake of the war to force the nation to confront its past . Many Germans believe they began to “ move on ” then and are now well past the traumas . Not everyone agrees that this has happened , of course : the Bader - Meinhof ...
... born ideas . The above argument should be tempered by the observation that , so far as Britain is concerned , there are other reasons why Germany and its achievements have been underplayed and / or underrecognized . As Nicho- las Boyle ...
... born during and after the Second World War the cultural history of Ger- many before 1933 is that of a lost country, one that they never knew.” I don't think many people alive today grasp this fundamental point about German pre-eminence ...
... born in St. Petersburg of parents who had emigrated from Denmark, but he moved to Frankfurt when he was eleven, studied at the universities of Zurich, Berlin, and Göttingen and taught for most of his career at the University of Halle ...
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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 |