![]() ![]() "This collection provides readers with a clear introduction to the riches of intellectual life in Weimar Germany and contextualizes many of the trends and innovations that took place there. It is destined to become the standard work on the Weimar experience for years to come." -Richard Wolin, author of Heidegger's Children: Hannah Arendt, Karl Löwith, Hans Jonas, and Herbert Marcuse ![]() Weimar Thought revisits this legacy in ways that are fresh, rich, thought provoking, and subtle. In many respects, as a site of modernity, its achievements remain unsurpassed. "In the annals of cultural history, the Weimar Republic was an ideational crucible that bears comparison only with classical Athens and Renaissance Florence. ![]() ![]() The book's reach-from theology to the biological sciences, and literary criticism to legal theory-goes far beyond any other volume I am aware of on the same subject." -Peter Carl Caldwell, Rice University It successfully shows continuities and discontinuities with the past, and tensions that resist reduction. "This is the first work in a generation that presents a comprehensive overview of Weimar culture with all its complexity and contradictions. ![]()
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