Cool Conduct: The Culture of Distance in Weimar Germany

Author/Contributor(s):	Lethen, Helmut ; Reneau, Don
Publisher:	University of California Press
Date:	03/27/2002
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

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.