num_pages: 301
description: 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.
language: English
title: Cool Conduct: The Culture of Distance in Weimar Germany (Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism)
titlecomplete: Cool Conduct: The Culture of Distance in Weimar Germany (Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism) (Volume 17)
genres: Germany, Sociology, Research
ratings_count: 16
series: Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism
publisher: University of California Press