Eric D. Weitz is Distinguished McKnight University Professor of History at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of A Century of Genocide and Creating German Communism, 1890-1990 (both Princeton).
Weimar Germany still fascinates us, and now this complex and remarkably creative period and place has the history it deserves. Eric Weitz's Weimar Germany reveals the Weimar era as a time of strikingly progressive achievements--and even greater promise. With a rich thematic narrative and detailed portraits of some of Weimar's greatest figures, this comprehensive history recaptures the excitement and drama as it unfolded, viewing Weimar in its own right--and not as a mere prelude to the Nazi era. Weimar Germany tells how Germans rose from the defeat of World War I and the turbulence of revolution to forge democratic institutions and make Berlin a world capital of avant-garde art. Setting the stage for this story, Weitz takes the reader on a walking tour of Berlin to see and feel what life was like there in the 1920s, when modernity and the modern city--with its bright lights, cinemas, "new women," cabarets, and sleek department stores--were new. We learn how Germans enjoyed better working conditions and new social benefits and listened to the utopian prophets of everything from radical socialism to communal housing to nudism. Weimar Germany also explores the period's revolutionary cultural creativity, from the new architecture of Erich Mendelsohn, Bruno Taut, and Walter Gropius to Hannah Hch's photomontages and Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's theater. Other chapters assess the period's turbulent politics and economy, and the recipes for fulfilling sex lives propounded by new "sexologists." Yet Weimar Germany also shows how entrenched elites continually challenged Weimar's achievements and ultimately joined with a new radical Right led by the Nazis to form a coalition that destroyed the republic. Thoroughly up-to-date, skillfully written, and strikingly illustrated, Weimar Germany brings to life as never before an era of creativity unmatched in the twentieth century-one whose influence and inspiration we still feel today.
發表於2024-11-13
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圖書標籤: 曆史 德國 魏瑪 魏瑪共和國 魏瑪共和國 近代史 文化 weimar
推薦這本魏瑪文化史。關注日常變遷,迴憶錄的口吻,比Peter Gay的好看且全麵……
評分以一種分學科紀實的方式:Weimar retold. 可能由於篇幅所限,在不少問題上點到為止,比如中産階級的貧化如何導緻政治風嚮的轉變,以及第三帝國何以“不必然發生”。see book series "Weimar and Now"; see Goodreads "Weimar Era Arts & Culture".
評分Urbanism and modernity. Spring, 2015. An easy read. Very relaxing.
評分A good survey of Weimar cultural politics. Paradoxically, the cradle of Nazism is also the cradle of the historical avant-garde, artistic and musical expressionism. The most radical went hand in hand with the most conservative. It makes me wonder whether Hegel was right after all
評分以一種分學科紀實的方式:Weimar retold. 可能由於篇幅所限,在不少問題上點到為止,比如中産階級的貧化如何導緻政治風嚮的轉變,以及第三帝國何以“不必然發生”。see book series "Weimar and Now"; see Goodreads "Weimar Era Arts & Culture".
Weimar Germany 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載