The Red Count: The Life and Times of Harry Kessler (Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: January 25, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780520248175
Subjects: Biography: general; European history: from c 1900 -; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; The Arts: General Issues; 20th century; Historical - General; Europe - General; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Germany; Europe - Germany; Biography & Autobiography / General; General; 1868-1937; 1918-1933; Biography; Graf,; Intellectuals; Kessler, Harry,; Politics and government
First sentence: The assumption that the traits of ancestors somehow play an important role in shaping one's character was much more widespread in Kessler's day, with its imperfect knowledge of the genetics of inheritance, than in our own: Kessler himself liked to imagine he could trace both intellectual and physical characteristics of his friends to their ancestry.