num_pages: 992
description: The German Genius is a virtuoso cultural history of German ideas and influence from 1750 to the present day by acclaimed historian Peter Watson (Making of the Modern Mind Ideas). From Bach Goethe and Schopenhauer to Nietzsche Freud and Einstein from the arts and humanities to science and philosophy The German Genius is a lively and accessible review of over 250 years of German intellectual history. In the process it explains the devastating effects of World War II which transformed a vibrant and brilliantly artistic culture into a vehicle of warfare and destruction and it shows how the German culture advanced in the wars aftermath.
language: English
title: The German Genius: Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution, and the Twentieth Century
publisher: Harper