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Cool Conduct : The Culture of Distance in Weimar Germany /

In this thext, the author 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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lethen, Helmut
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Alemán
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2002.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Fending Off Shame: The Habitus of Objectivity
  • The Rapture of Circulation and Schematicism
  • The Conduct Code of the Cool Persona
  • The Cool Persona in New Objectivity Literature; or, Figures Devoured by the Shadows They Cast
  • The Radar Type
  • The Creature.