Cool Conduct The Culture of Distance in Weimar Germany |
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| Author:
| Lethen, Helmut |
| Translator:
| Reneau, Don |
| Series title: | Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-520-20109-5 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2002 |
| Publisher: | University of California Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $95.95 |
Book Description:
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Cool Conduct is an elegant interpretation of attitudes and mentalities that informed the Weimar Republic by a scholar well known for his profound knowledge of this period. Helmut Lethen writes of "cool conduct" as a cultivated antidote to the heated atmosphere of post-World War I Germany, as a way of burying shame and animosity that might otherwise make social contact impossible.
Cool Conduct is an elegant interpretation of attitudes and mentalities that informed the Weimar Republic by a scholar well known for his profound knowledge of this period. Helmut Lethen writes of "cool conduct" as a cultivated antidote to the heated atmosphere of post-World War I Germany, as a way of burying shame and animosity that might otherwise make social contact impossible.