German genius :
Watson, Peter, 1943-
German genius : Europe's third renaissance, the second scientific revolution, and the twentieth century / by Peter Watson. - 1st ed. - New York : Harper, 2010. - xix, 964 p. ; 20 cm.
Rs.499/-
Includes bibliographical references (p. [837]-936) and index.
Parts:
I. The great turn in German Life
II. A third renaissance, between doubt ad Darwin
III. The rise of the educated middle class: the engines and engineers of modern prosperity
IV. The miseries and miracles of modernity
V. Songs of the Reich : Hitler and the spiritualization of the struggle
VI. Beyond Hitler: continuity of the German tradition under adverse conditions.
"A virtuosic cultural history of German ideas and influence, from 1750 to the present day"--
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.
9781416526155 (softback)
2010006738
Germany--Intellectual life.
Germany--Civilization.
943 WAT
German genius : Europe's third renaissance, the second scientific revolution, and the twentieth century / by Peter Watson. - 1st ed. - New York : Harper, 2010. - xix, 964 p. ; 20 cm.
Rs.499/-
Includes bibliographical references (p. [837]-936) and index.
Parts:
I. The great turn in German Life
II. A third renaissance, between doubt ad Darwin
III. The rise of the educated middle class: the engines and engineers of modern prosperity
IV. The miseries and miracles of modernity
V. Songs of the Reich : Hitler and the spiritualization of the struggle
VI. Beyond Hitler: continuity of the German tradition under adverse conditions.
"A virtuosic cultural history of German ideas and influence, from 1750 to the present day"--
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.
9781416526155 (softback)
2010006738
Germany--Intellectual life.
Germany--Civilization.
943 WAT