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• WEIMAR CULTURE : THE OUTSIR AS INSIR PETER GAY (SEEKER
• PETER GAY OBUARY
• IN MEMORIAM: PETER GAY

WEIMAR CULTURE : THE OUTSIR AS INSIR PETER GAY (SEEKER

A semal work as melod and hntg as the era published 1968, Weimar Culture is one of the masterworks of Peter Gay's distguished reer. urn:lcp:weimarcultureout00gayp:lcpdf:4983b50d-3335-4ddf-a47f-220e7fb16515. urn:lcp:weimarcultureout00gayp:epub:77cf8aac-bce7-46fe-8e-c0103b48925a.

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Reviewed the Uned Stat ?? on Augt 25, 2008Peter Gay's elegant tale tak up an old theme, the nnectn between culture and polics, that rells ancient Greek bate about art and society.

PETER GAY OBUARY

In six brief chapters Peter Gay Frdian imag to trace the birth, growth, and ath of the Weimar Republic.

Gay lls the feelgs a "hunger for wholens, " fed by the pursu of culture for s own sake, a strong need for muny, the dismissal of reason, the yearng for hero, and unqutng submissn to thory.

Counter-revolutn follows revolutn and Gay's Frdian mol the "revenge of the father" after the "revolt of the sons.

IN MEMORIAM: PETER GAY

In a f of black humor Gay not, "There was a whole genre of novels alg wh the suicis of young high school stunts... Reviewed the Uned Stat ?? on September 26, 2017In this tertg analysis of the culture of Weimar Germany, Gay poss the ia that the outsirs of Wilhelme Germany beme the sirs of Weimar Germany.

Gay stat he wants to fe the Weimar spir but I don't thk he ever do. And is Berl that he mostly foc on bee Berl was the largt cy and pal of the a few chapters Gay foc on on the birth of Weimar (though sadly he dont give a polil history of the Republic until the end of the book), on s cultural output by focg on lerature, philosophy, mic, newspapers, opera, patg, and that most morn of mediums - movi.

As an asi, Gay's cricisms of the Frz Lang movie 'Metropolis' was serly misguid. Reviewed the Uned Stat ?? on July 17, 2021Peter Gay brgs the entire culture of the perd to life, as only he n do.

Turng to the ntent the thor, Peter Gay, has chosen to adopt a psychologil ntext for the different chapters. Gay’s wrg is about feelgs and psychology and I doubt many cizens of the Republic would have regnised his exposn of their culture. Reviewed the Uned Kgdom ?? on Augt 27, 2014Peter Gay's book is sential readg if you are terted the perd between wars Germany.

Weimar Berl: Weimar culture, by Peter Gay. First published 1968, Weimar Culture is one of the masterworks of Peter Gay's distguished reer.

Peter Gay's elegant tale tak up an old theme, the nnectn between culture and polics, that rells ancient Greek bate about art and society. Gay puts forward the ia that culture is " ntuo, tense teractn wh society, and exprsn and cricism of polil reali. I found this, as wh Gay's other books, to be an extremely eful analysis.

Gay do a very solid job of verg a number of topics 145 pag. Among other subjects, Gay discs exprsnism; archecture (cludg Gropi and Bhs); the Warburg and Frankfurt Instut; poetry and the German imagatn; the rejectn of polics durg this perd; the new realism art, such as that of Gee Grosz (but no discsn of da-da); the "new objectivy"; youth movements; the impact of mornism; Heigger and other philosophers; and Spengler and history. Gay nclus wh a brief, yet suggtive, analysis of what went wrong wh Weimar and why me to be rejected by most Germans prr to WWII.

Wikipedia English (1)▾Book scriptnsFirst published 1968, Weimar Culture is one of the masterworks of Peter Gay's distguished reer. By Peter Gay. by Peter Gay.

©1968, 2001 Peter Gay (P)2019 Tantor. Peter Gay’s book is a ncise, highly readable and engagg history of Germany between the wars.

Somehow, Peter Gay ma Weimar borg…. In the end, I don’t thk Gay has any real ‘feel’ for his subject.

I would have thought that Ernst Rger was a more central figure than Profsor Gay suggts and I would have thought that Hans Zehrer and the Tatkreis should have been mentned. The ste system William H's Germany pro- voked the outsir to creative prOtt and then, as Profsor Gay puts , the Weiar Republic turned the tabl and the outsir was put to mand or somethg like . Gay's, study serv, special praise for, s emphasis, upon the importance of the atmosphere of, Berl_ the tellectual and artistic life of the Weimar Republic, and also for s emphasis upon the ntributn of Herich and Thomas Mann.

Profsor Gay do suggt that there was somethg like a ath-wish, somethg suicidal about the Weimar Republic. Profsor Gay's acunt of German life the 'twenti provis stctive parisons wh the problems of our own time, the nflict between generatns, the applitn of psychiatry, and so on. Weimar Culture: The Outsir as Insir by Peter Gay.

Peter Gay, who would later produce a magisterial if tennt bgraphy of Frd, attemptg to rehabilate him as a rpectable scientific empiricist, here se the rise and fall of Weimar Germany blunt Frdian terms: the Revolutn of 1918-19 that end the Empire and hered the Weimar Republic was simply a “Revolt of the Son” (Jews, socialists, liberals, ternatnalists, avant-gar artists, etc. ) It is a neat ltle story of Oedipal nflict, tidy, dramatic, and symmetric, though Gay seems to equivote on jt how lerally we’re supposed to take .