The German Genius: Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution and the Twentieth CenturySimon and Schuster, 2010年9月16日 - 992 頁 From the end of the Baroque age and the death of Bach in 1750 to the rise of Hitler in 1933, Germany was transformed from a poor relation among western nations into a dominant intellectual and cultural force more influential than France, Britain, Italy, Holland, and the United States. In the early decades of the 20th century, German artists, writers, philosophers, scientists, and engineers were leading their freshly-unified country to new and undreamed of heights, and by 1933, they had won more Nobel prizes than anyone else and more than the British and Americans combined. But this genius was cut down in its prime with the rise and subsequent fall of Adolf Hitler and his fascist Third Reich-a legacy of evil that has overshadowed the nation's contributions ever since. Yet how did the Germans achieve their pre-eminence beginning in the mid-18th century? In this fascinating cultural history, Peter Watson goes back through time to explore the origins of the German genius, how it flourished and shaped our lives, and, most importantly, to reveal how it continues to shape our world. As he convincingly demonstarates, while we may hold other European cultures in higher esteem, it was German thinking-from Bach to Nietzsche to Freud-that actually shaped modern America and Britain in ways that resonate today. |
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Blinded by the Light Hitler the Holocaust and the Past That Will Not Pass | |
PART | |
Bildung and the Inborn Drive toward Perfection | |
PART | |
PART THREE | |
The Invention of Research and the Prussian Protestant Concept of Learning | |
The Evolution of Alienation | |
A Unique Event in the History of Ideas | |
The Discovery of Radio Relativity and the Quantum | |
Sensibility and Sensuality in Vienna | |
Germanys Montmartre | |
Berlin Busybody | |
The Great War between Heroes and Traders | |
The Culture of the Defeated | |
Unprecedented Mental Alertness | |
The Golden Age of TwentiethCentury Physics Philosophy | |
The Heroic Age of Biology | |
Out from The Wretchedness of German Backwardness | |
German Fever in France Britain and the United States | |
Wagners Other RingFeuerbach Schopenhauer Nietzsche | |
Helmholtz Clausius Boltzmann Riemann | |
Siemens Hofmann Bayer Zeiss | |
Krupp Benz Diesel Rathenau | |
Virchow Koch Mendel Freud | |
THE MISERIES AND MIRACLES OF MODERNITY | |
The Abuses of History | |
The Pathologies of Nationalism | |
The First Coherent School of Sociology | |
the trap of stereotyping Germansas sticklers for exactitude as pedantic | |
Dissonance and the MostDiscussed Man in Music | |
A Problem in Need of a Solution | |
HITLER AND | |
No Such Thing as Objectivity | |
The Twilight of the Theologians | |
The Fruits Failures and Infamy of German Wartime Science | |
Exile and the Road into the Open | |
CONTINUITY | |
His Majestys Most Loyal Enemy Aliens | |
From Heidegger to Habermas to Ratzinger | |
A Germany Not Seen Before | |
German Genius The Dazzle Deification and Dangers of Inwardness | |
Thirtyfive Underrated Germans | |
Index | |
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