Cool Conduct: The Culture of Distance in Weimar Germany

By Helmut Lethen

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520201094
• ISBN13: 9780520201095
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 263 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"