Cool conduct : the culture of distance in Weimar Germany / Helmut Lethen ; translated by Don Reneau.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lethen, Helmut.

Series:

Weimar and now ; 17.

Weimar and now ; 17

Standardized Title:

Verhalenslehren der Kälte. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conduct of life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Preface to the American Edition

Acknowledgments

1. Fending Off Shame: The Habitus of Objectivity

2. The Rapture of Circulation and Schematicism

3. The Conduct Code of the Cool Persona

4. The Cool Persona in New Objectivity Literature

5. The Radar Type

6. The Creature

Afterword

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-238) and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

9780520916418

0520916417

9781282356276

1282356275

OCLC:

475927744