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2024-11-23
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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
一戰背景,凡爾賽條約之恥。柏林這樣的城市的變遷,魏瑪的左-中-右的勢力的增長與消弭,兩次經濟危機,文化(建築、文學、音樂),gender politics。最有啓發的大概還是政黨在整個十五年間的動態變化,比如共黨和SPD間的齟齬,整個左派消極應對經濟危機、後來嚮右讓步、挫傷瞭工人階級在魏瑪初期贏得的權益。極端右翼對保守主義的利用,其發動戰爭的邏輯也非常明確,反凡爾賽、反布爾什維剋、反猶,是對德國不公正的壓迫。他有一個很重要的觀點是,魏瑪期間從未取得過某種一緻,整個社會總是四分五裂的,即使NSDAP最高期間也隻是得瞭37%的選票。但又點齣NSDAP確實是動員瞭最多元化的社會力量的組織。
評分Eric Weitz presents extraordinary mastery in narrating and interpreting materials from a variety of disciplines, including politics, architecture,literature, theater, economics and gender studies. He offers a fascinating tour guide to 1920s Postdamer Platz in Berlin in Ch. 2. His comparison between Thomas Mann and Bertolt Brecht is compelling too.
評分論文寫完瞭,可以去挑糞瞭。
評分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
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