Author

Publication

2002 - University of California Press, Berkeley, California

Language

English

Word Count

62,250 words, Guess

Page Count

249 pages

Identifiers

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Classifications

  • LCCBJ1583 .L5713 2002

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.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Weimar and now -- 17

Other Editions

  • Cool conduct: the culture of distance in Weimar GermanyUniversity of California Press2002-01-01

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