Cool conduct
Subtitle: the culture of distance in Weimar Germany
By: Helmut Lethen ; translated by Don Reneau
Series: Weimar and now -- 17
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
Subjects: Conduct of life
Work titles: Verhaltenslehren der Kälte.
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index