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German Incertitudes, 1914-1945 The Stones and the Cathedral
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Klemens von Klemperer
Book Code: C7017
ISBN: 0-275-97017-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-97017-8
192 pages, photos
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 3/30/2001
List Price: $125.00 (UK Sterling Price: £70.00)
Availability: Out of stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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  • [V]aluable as a concise, wide-ranging and highly engaging discussion of German culture leading up to 1933, and is a testament to the author's great insight into his subject.
    —English Historical Review     September 2002
Description: The history of modern Germany has all too readily been seen in terms of an historical process that inevitably led to the horrors of National Socialism. As there are no certitudes in life, however, so there are none in German history. In this book, historian Klemens von Klemperer focuses on what he terms "the German Incertitudes"--namely, the tensions between a realistic acceptance of disenchantment with the modern world, and an insistence upon reenchantment. Exploring this tension through a critical assessment of the ideas and writings of major German thinkers, von Klemperer seeks to account for both the achievements and the failings of German thought, society, and politics as responses to the challenge of modernity in the first half of the 20th century. In addition to individuals such as Nietzsche, Weber, Spengler, Jünger, Bonhoeffer, and Heidegger, the author considers broader movements and ideas such as the concept of Gemeinschaft and the German expressionists, all in the wider context of Western intellectual currents, Rather than belaboring presumed German deviance from the European norms, von Klemperer explores the reasons why the sense of crisis in the face of modernity was singularly acute among Germans, he traces a spectrum of reactions extending from an acceptance of modern disenchantment to the quest for reenchantment which found an extreme manifestation in National Socialism.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Tradition and Modernity in German Thought and Society
  • The Great War: Experience and Memory
  • Heroic and Not-so-Heroic Pessimism: Max Weber and Oswald Spengler
  • The Adventurer: Ernst Jünger Reconsidered Reconsidered
  • The Call for Allegiance: Hugo von Hofmannsthal
  • The Lure and the Limits of Gemeinschaft
  • Fragments, Abstraction and a Vision: the German Expressionists
  • Authenticity: Martin Heidegger and the Temptation of National Socialism
  • Maturity: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Faith and the "World Come of Age"
  • The German Mind Between Disenchantment and Reenchantment
LC Card Number: 00-061129
LCC Class: DD86
Dewey Class: 943
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