Cool Conduct : The Culture of Distance in Weimar Germany.
Title:
Cool Conduct : The Culture of Distance in Weimar Germany.
Author:
Lethen, Helmut.
ISBN:
9780520916418
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (264 pages)
Series:
Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism ; v.17
Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism
Contents:
Contents -- Preface to the American edition -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Fending Off Shame: The Habitus of Objectivity -- 2. The Rapture of Circulation and Schematicism -- 3. The Conduct Code of the Cool Persona -- 4. The Cool Persona in New Objectivity Literature -- 5. The Radar Type -- 6. The Creature -- Afterword -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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