Weimar Culture, Peter Gay
Weimar Culture, Peter Gay
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Weimar Culture
The Outsider as Insider

Author: Peter Gay

Narrator: James Anderson Foster

Unabridged: 6 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/28/2019


Synopsis

A seminal work as melodious and haunting as the era it chronicles.

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 tenuous post–World War I democracy, and crashed violently in the wake of Hitler's rise to power. Despite the ephemeral nature of the Weimar democracy, the influence of its culture was profound and far-reaching, ushering in a modern sensibility in the arts that dominated Western culture for most of the twentieth century. Vivid and highly engaging, Weimar Culture is the finest introduction for the casual listener and historian alike.

About Peter Gay

Peter Gay (1923-2015) was the author of more than twenty-five books, including the National Book Award winner The Enlightenment, the bestselling Weimar Culture, and the widely translated Freud: A Life for Our Time.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mark on December 07, 2020

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

Goodreads review by Jim on January 16, 2018

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

Goodreads review by Ilse on December 31, 2021

(****1/2)......more

Goodreads review by merixien on March 18, 2025

".... 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

Goodreads review by Robert on December 28, 2017

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