Description: The Politics of Cultural DespairA Study in the Rise of the Germanic Ideology Author(s): Fritz R. Stern Format: Paperback Publisher: University of California Press, United States Imprint: University of California Press ISBN-13: 9780520026261, 978-0520026261 Synopsis This is a study in the pathology of cultural criticism. By analyzing the thought and influence of three leading critics of modern Germany, this study will demonstrate the dangers and dilemmas of a particular type of cultural despair. Lagarde, Langbehn, and Moeller van den Bruck-their active lives spanning the years from the middle of the past century to the threshold of Hitler's Third Reich-attacked, often incisively and justly, the deficiencies of German culture and the German spirit. But they were more than the critics of Germany's cultural crisis; they were its symptoms and victims as well. Unable to endure the ills which they diagnosed and which they had experienced in their own lives, they sought to become prophets who would point the way to a national rebirth. Hence, they propounded all manner of reforms, ruthless and idealistic, nationalistic and utopian. It was this leap from despair to utopia across all existing reality that gave their thought its fantastic quality.
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Book Title: The Politics of Cultural Despair
Number of Pages: 367 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: The Politics of Cultural Despair: a Study in the Rise of the Germanic Ideology
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication Year: 1974
Subject: Government
Item Height: 210 mm
Item Weight: 454 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Fritz R. Stern
Item Width: 140 mm
Format: Paperback
