Weimar Culture
The Outsider as Insider

The Weimar Republic was born from the collapse of one empire and was murdered in the rise of another. In the span between, however, it was the site of one of the most extraordinarily fruitful cultural movements in Western history, one that would spread far beyond the borders of interwar Germany to s......more

What I did not like about Peter Gay's Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider is that it ignored many of the aspects of Weimar Culture which interested me and concentrated, instead, heavily on the politics. There was, for instance, almost no mention of the horrible inflation that gripped Germany, no......more

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".... Weimar’ın seçilmesi kısmen bir hüsnükuruntu belirtisiydi. Bir ülkenin Goethe’nin şehrinde kurulması, o ülkenin Goethe’nin suretinde olmasını sağlamadı. Hayatta kalmasını bile sağlamadı. Cumhuriyet yenilgi sonucu doğdu, çalkantılarla yaşadı, felaket sonucu öldü ve onun doğum sancılarını müthiş......more

Peter Gay's short book--he calls it an essay--on the cultural underpinnings of the Weimar Republic is an excellent primer on why it failed: catastrophic economic difficulties imposed by both Versailles-mandated reparations and the Great Depression, a lack of conviction on the part of the German inte......more