The Weimar Republic : The Crisis of Classical Modernity

Detlev J K Peukert; Peukert
Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
 9780809015566
0-8090-1556-0

The nature of Weimar's terminal crisis - how a politically liberal and culturally progressive society could succomb to fascism - remains one of the central historical questions of our century. In this major work, Detlev J.K. Peukert offers a stimulating interpretation that not only places Weimar in the history of twentieth-century Germany but also reveals it as an archetype of the ambivalences and pathologies of advanced industrial society.