The Weimar Republic: The Crisis of Classical Modernity

5 best books like The Weimar Republic: The Crisis of Classical Modernity (Detlev J.K. Peukert): The Wretched of the Earth, Sonnets to Orpheus, Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America, Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy, Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider

The Wretched of the Earth

Author	Frantz Fanon
ISBN	0802141323

A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Frantz Fanon was one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history. Fanon's masterwork is a classic alongside Edward Said's Orientalism...

Sonnets to Orpheus

Author	Rainer Maria Rilke
ISBN	0393328856

To Rilke himself the Sonnets to Orpheus were "perhaps the most mysterious in the way they came up and entrusted themselves to me, the most enigmatic dictation I have ever held through and achieved; the whole first part was written down in a single breathless act of obedience, between the 2nd and 5th of...

Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America

Author	Lawrence W. Levine
ISBN	0674390776

In this wide-ranging study, spanning more than a century & covering such diverse forms of expressive culture as Shakespeare, Central Park, symphonies, jazz, art museums, the Marx Brothers, opera & vaudeville, America's leading cultural historian demonstrates how variable & dynamic...

Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy

Author

Eric D. Weitz

Thoroughly up-to-date, skillfully written, and strikingly illustrated, Weimar Germany brings to life an era of unmatched creativity in the twentieth century—one whose influence and inspiration still resonate today. Eric Weitz has written the authoritative history that this fascinating...

Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider

Author	Peter Gay
ISBN	0393322394

First published in 1968, Weimar Culture is one of the masterworks of Peter Gay's distinguished career. A study of German culture between the two wars, the book brilliantly traces the rise of the artistic, literary, and musical culture that bloomed ever so briefly in the 1920s amid the chaos of Germany's...