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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... later , but for now the issue to bear in mind is that , however suc- cessful or otherwise his theory is judged to be , it was above all an attempt to explain the special — the peculiar — path of German history , a political path to ...
... later Slovenjgrade in Yugoslavia, now in Slovenia. I adopt the same principle as Georg Lukács, who said of the Swiss novelist Gottfried Keller, that he was just as much a German writer as Rousseau, who came from Geneva, was a French ...
... later Bach was dead . The last great achievement of his life , completed during his final months , was the Mass in B Minor , one of the great masterpieces of Western music ( " titanic " in the words of the critic Harold Schonberg ) ...
... later—reached its apogee in the Romantic period, when original research was regarded as a form of art. In some Göttingen seminars, the practice evolved whereby the original paper had to be delivered a week in advance so that other ...
... later Middle Ages and was reflected in the publication of a number of herbals. Then, as a result of the great voyages in the age of exploration and the discovery of the New World, the immense variety of plant and animal life across the ...
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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 |