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.
1 有用 学前路上小饼干 2012-12-26 15:19:51
政治经济社会文化包罗万象史,以及封面这么好看!
0 有用 Bonbon 2014-08-15 02:18:54
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 ... 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. (展开)
0 有用 禅茶一味 2015-03-30 20:05:24
Urbanism and modernity. Spring, 2015. An easy read. Very relaxing.
0 有用 琴酒 2016-08-30 18:47:04
一战背景,凡尔赛条约之耻。柏林这样的城市的变迁,魏玛的左-中-右的势力的增长与消弭,两次经济危机,文化(建筑、文学、音乐),gender politics。最有启发的大概还是政党在整个十五年间的动态变化,比如共党和SPD间的龃龉,整个左派消极应对经济危机、后来向右让步、挫伤了工人阶级在魏玛初期赢得的权益。极端右翼对保守主义的利用,其发动战争的逻辑也非常明确,反凡尔赛、反布尔什维克、反犹,是对德国不... 一战背景,凡尔赛条约之耻。柏林这样的城市的变迁,魏玛的左-中-右的势力的增长与消弭,两次经济危机,文化(建筑、文学、音乐),gender politics。最有启发的大概还是政党在整个十五年间的动态变化,比如共党和SPD间的龃龉,整个左派消极应对经济危机、后来向右让步、挫伤了工人阶级在魏玛初期赢得的权益。极端右翼对保守主义的利用,其发动战争的逻辑也非常明确,反凡尔赛、反布尔什维克、反犹,是对德国不公正的压迫。他有一个很重要的观点是,魏玛期间从未取得过某种一致,整个社会总是四分五裂的,即使NSDAP最高期间也只是得了37%的选票。但又点出NSDAP确实是动员了最多元化的社会力量的组织。 (展开)
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0 有用 胡桃夹子 2021-01-27 11:36:20
刚刚读毕便发现中译本也上架了,真的好巧。魏玛德国对于任何国家都算是一个警示,它太独一无二了
0 有用 吃饱了撑着才 2019-08-06 00:08:24
推荐这本魏玛文化史。关注日常变迁,回忆录的口吻,比Peter Gay的好看且全面……
0 有用 琴酒 2016-08-30 18:47:04
一战背景,凡尔赛条约之耻。柏林这样的城市的变迁,魏玛的左-中-右的势力的增长与消弭,两次经济危机,文化(建筑、文学、音乐),gender politics。最有启发的大概还是政党在整个十五年间的动态变化,比如共党和SPD间的龃龉,整个左派消极应对经济危机、后来向右让步、挫伤了工人阶级在魏玛初期赢得的权益。极端右翼对保守主义的利用,其发动战争的逻辑也非常明确,反凡尔赛、反布尔什维克、反犹,是对德国不... 一战背景,凡尔赛条约之耻。柏林这样的城市的变迁,魏玛的左-中-右的势力的增长与消弭,两次经济危机,文化(建筑、文学、音乐),gender politics。最有启发的大概还是政党在整个十五年间的动态变化,比如共党和SPD间的龃龉,整个左派消极应对经济危机、后来向右让步、挫伤了工人阶级在魏玛初期赢得的权益。极端右翼对保守主义的利用,其发动战争的逻辑也非常明确,反凡尔赛、反布尔什维克、反犹,是对德国不公正的压迫。他有一个很重要的观点是,魏玛期间从未取得过某种一致,整个社会总是四分五裂的,即使NSDAP最高期间也只是得了37%的选票。但又点出NSDAP确实是动员了最多元化的社会力量的组织。 (展开)
0 有用 禅茶一味 2015-03-30 20:05:24
Urbanism and modernity. Spring, 2015. An easy read. Very relaxing.