The Seduction of Culture in German History.(Book review)

From: The Historian | Date: March 22, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

The Seduction of Culture in German History. By Wolf Lepenies. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. viii, 249. $24.95.)

This engaging volume by the prominent German scholar and public intellectual Wolf Lepenies is a very personal, urbane "tour d'horizon," as Richard Wollin aptly puts it on the book jacket, of German politics and culture from Goethe to the present, with extensive forays into French, American, and Central European cultural debates. The book starts and ends with the Nazis; Hitler, the Germans' war, and Holocaust are always in the background as ...

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