{"product_id":"germany-at-the-fin-de-sicle-culture-politics-and-ideas-9780807129791","title":"Germany at the Fin de Siècle: Culture, Politics, and Ideas","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe phrase fin de si cle conjures up images of artistic experimentation and political decadence. The contributors to this volume argue that Wilhelmine Germany--best known for its industrial and military muscle--also shared these traits. Their essays look back to the years between 1885 and 1914 to find in Germany a mixture of sociopolitical malaise and experimental exhilaration that was similar in many ways to the better-known cases of France and Austria. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRevising the view that the German Second Reich was merely a precursor to the Third, this broad-scoped study presents pre-World War I Germany in its own fascinating and often contradictory terms. The foundations of the antiliberal passions that would plague the Weimar Republic are evident, but Wilhelmine society also had a lighter, more playful and moderate spirit, one that was largely extinguished by the Great War. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBlending social, cultural, and intellectual history, the contributors--a distinguished cross-section of older and younger scholars--trace changing German views on liberalism, penal reform, race, women, art, popular culture, and technology. They juxtapose better-known figures such as Max Weber, Thomas Mann, and Martin Heidegger with now-forgotten individuals like the Jewish feminist novelist Grete Meisel-Hess and the iconoclastic Swiss painter Arnold B cklin. Their essay topics range from the esoteric and erotic poetry of Stefan George to the Jewish comedy of the Herrnfeld Theater. \"Modernity\" is examined from the perspectives of bourgeois cinema-goers and judicial reformers, as well as from the viewpoint of Carl Jung. The result is a variegated picture of an unsettled world, rich in its innovations, ambitious in its undertakings, and often apocalyptic in its dreams.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Suzanne Marchand\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e LSU Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.46lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.28h x 6.44w x 1.13d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807129791\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuzanne Marchand teaches European intellectual history at Louisiana State University and is the author of \u003ci\u003eDown from Olympus: Archaeology and Philhellenism in Germany, 1750-1970;\u003c\/i\u003e coauthor of \u003ci\u003eWorlds Together, Worlds Apart;\u003c\/i\u003e and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eProof and Persuasion: Essays on Authority and Objectivity.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e David Lindenfeld is a professor of history at Louisiana State University and the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Transformation of Positivism: Alexius Meinong and European Thought, 1880-1920\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Practical Imagination: The German Sciences of State in the Nineteenth Century.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"LSU Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40161550991475,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":79.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_0b77dc65-8eab-49e4-8032-e66b4f208748.jpg?v=1654954785","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/germany-at-the-fin-de-sicle-culture-politics-and-ideas-9780807129791","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}