The Politics of Cultural Despair: A Study in the Rise of the Germanic Ideology (California Library Reprint Series)
By Fritz R. Stern.
Description
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 vic...
ISBN(s)
0520026268, 9780520026261