Cool Conduct
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A01=Helmut Lethen
alienation
animosity
artificiality
Author_Helmut Lethen
Category=GTM
Category=JBCC
Category=NHD
civilization
community
cultural history
distance
empire
enemies
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fascism
german history
germany
individualism
modernity
new objectivity
nonfiction
objectivity
personal conduct
post war
public sphere
shame
social order
society
stability
trauma
weimar republic
world war one
ww1
Product details
- ISBN 9780520201095
- Weight: 544g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 27 Mar 2002
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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"Cool Conduct" is an elegant interpretation of attitudes and mentalities that informed the Weimar Republic by a scholar well known for his profound knowledge of this period. Helmut Lethen writes of "cool conduct" as a cultivated antidote to the heated atmosphere of post-World War I Germany, as a way of burying shame and animosity that might otherwise make social contact impossible.
Helmut Lethen is Professor of German at the University of Rostock and author of books on Brecht and on New Objectivity in Germany. Don Reneau is an independent translator living in Chicago.
