Cool Conduct: The Culture of Distance in Weimar Germany (Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism)
Book Details
Author(s)Helmut Lethen
PublisherUniversity of California Press
ISBN / ASIN0520201094
ISBN-139780520201095
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank1,745,468
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
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.
