VERLAGSTEXT: / / Explores the transformation of Germany between 1750 and 1933, when some of Germany's greatest thinkers turned their country into a dominant intellectual and cultural force in Europe that helped shape modern America and Britain. / / Explores the transformation of Germany between 1750 and 1933, when some of Germany's greatest thinkers--artists, writers, philosophers, scientists and engineers--turned their country into a dominant intellectual and cultural force in Europe that helped shape modern America and Britain. 20,000 first printing. / / "A virtuosic cultural history of German ideas and influence, from 1750 to the present day"-- / / The German Genius is a virtuoso cultural history of German ideas and influence, from 1750 to the present day, by acclaimed historian Peter Watson ( Making of the Modern Mind, Ideas). From Bach, Goethe, and Schopenhauer to Nietzsche, Freud, and Einstein, from the arts and humanities to science and philosophy, The German Genius is a lively and accessible review of over 250 years of German intellectual history. In the process, it explains the devastating effects of World War II, which transformed a vibrant and brilliantly artistic culture into a vehicle of warfare and destruction, and it shows how the German culture advanced in the war's aftermath. / ntroduction: Blinded by the Light: Hitler, the Holocaust, and "the Past That Will Not Pass Away" / /
AUS DEM INHALT: / / 1 (40)
PART ONE The Great Turn in German Life
1 Germanness Emerging
41 (24)
2 Bildung and the Inborn Drive toward Perfection
65 (26)
PART TWO A Third Renaissance, between Doubt and Darwin
3 Winckelmann, Wolf, and Lessing: the Third Greek Revival and the Origins of Modern Scholarship
91 (20)
4 The Supreme Products of the Age of Paper
111 (24)
5 New Light on the Structure of the Mind
135 (18)
6 The High Renaissance in Music: The Symphony as Philosophy
153 (14)
7 Cosmos, Cuneiform, Clausewitz
167 (22)
8 The Mother Tongue, the Inner Voice, and the Romantic Song
189 (18)
9 The Brandenburg Gate, the Iron Cross, and the German Raphaels
207 (18)
PART THREE The Rise of the Educated Middle Class: The Engines and Engineers of Modern Prosperity
10 Humboldt's Gift: The Invention of Research and the Prussian (Protestant) Concept of Learning
225 (14)
11 The Evolution of Alienation
239 (22)
12 German Historicism: "A Unique Event in the History of Ideas"
261 (10)
13 The Heroic Age of Biology
271 (18)
14 Out from "The Wretchedness of German Backwardness"
289 (22)
15 "German Fever" in France, Britain, and the United States
311 (16)
16 Wagner's Other Ring---Feuerbach, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche
327 (14)
17 Physics Becomes King: Helmholtz, Clausius, Boltzmann, Riemann
341 (14)
18 The Rise of the Laboratory: Siemens, Hofmann, Bayer, Zeiss
355 (14)
19 Masters of Metal: Krupp, Benz, Diesel, Rathenau
369 (14)
20 The Dynamics of Disease: Virchow, Koch, Mendel, Freud
383 (18)
PART FOUR The Miseries and Miracles of Modernity
21 The Abuses of History
401 (16)
22 The Pathologies of Nationalism
417 (22)
23 Money, the Masses, the Metropolis: The "First Coherent School of Sociology"
439 (20)
24 Dissonance and the Most-Discussed Man in Music
459 (16)
25 The Discovery of Radio, Relativity, and the Quantum
475 (14)
26 Sensibility and Sensuality in Vienna
489 (14)
27 Munich/Schwabing: Germany's "Montmartre"
503 (16)
28 Berlin Busybody
519 (12)
29 The Great War between Heroes and Traders
531 (16)
30 Prayers for a Fatherless Child: The Culture of the Defeated
547 (20)
31 Weimar: "Unprecedented Mental Alertness"
567 (28)
32 Weimar: The Golden Age of Twentieth-Century Physics, Philosophy, and History
595 (16)
33 Weimar: "A Problem in Need of a Solution"
611 (18)
PART FIVE Songs of the Reich: Hitler and the "Spiritualization of the Struggle"
34 Nazi Aesthetics: The "Brown Shift"
629 (20)
35 Scholarship in the Third Reich: "No Such Thing as Objectivity"
649 (24)
36 The Twilight of the Theologians
673 (16)
37 The Fruits, Failures, and Infamy of German Wartime Science
689 (10)
38 Exile, and the Road into the Open
699 (14)
PART SIX Beyond Hitler: Continuity of the German Tradition under Adverse Conditions
39 The "Fourth Reich": The Effect of German Thought on America
713 (30)
40 "His Majesty's Most Loyal Enemy Aliens"
743 (14)
41 "Divided Heaven": From Heidegger to Habermas to Ratzinger
757 (32)
42 Cafe Deutschland: "A Germany Not Seen Before"
789 (28)
Conclusion: German Genius: The Dazzle, Deification, and Dangers of Inwardness 817 (34)
Appendix: Thirty-five Underrated Germans 851 (6)
Notes and References 857 (70)
Index 927
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