ABSTRACT

Originally published in 1978, this book discusses some of the most important problems of 20th Century. The central concern of the volume is the deep-rooted provincialism which has pervaded the German cultural scene since the middle of the 19th Century. The causes and consequences of cultural developments which made the most tragic period of German history possible are reflected upon in this outstanding work.

chapter |20 pages

Introduction

part |1 pages

Culture as FaÇade

chapter 1|3 pages

Master Goethe

chapter 2|3 pages

Potsdam is Weimar

chapter 3|7 pages

Naked and Beautiful

chapter 5|19 pages

The Pathos of Schiller

chapter 6|5 pages

Spiesser Romanticism

chapter 7|4 pages

In the Arbour

chapter 9|3 pages

Sentiment at Home

part |1 pages

Mythos against Logos

chapter 2|5 pages

Western Decadence

chapter 3|5 pages

Professors and Heroes

chapter 5|5 pages

Socialist Traitors

chapter 6|4 pages

German Conservatism

chapter 7|6 pages

Leadership

chapter 8|6 pages

Man as Predator

chapter 10|3 pages

Of Blood and Race

chapter 11|9 pages

Blood and Soil

chapter 12|8 pages

National Exaltation

chapter 13|6 pages

The Word ‘German’

part |1 pages

Repression and Complex

chapter 1|15 pages

The German Maid

chapter 2|7 pages

The Maid’s Hero

chapter 3|8 pages

Beer-Mug Mystique

chapter 4|3 pages

Mob Romanticism

chapter 6|11 pages

Anti-Semitism

chapter 7|15 pages

The Ghastly Idyll

chapter 8|12 pages

Ossified Churches