03534nam 22010094a 450 991045601190332120240410063133.00-520-91641-71-282-35627-510.1525/9780520916418(CKB)111082128302114(EBL)223334(OCoLC)475927744(SSID)ssj0000130388(PQKBManifestationID)11159732(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000130388(PQKBWorkID)10081187(PQKB)11092929(StDuBDS)EDZ0000056121(MiAaPQ)EBC223334(OCoLC)52859405(MdBmJHUP)muse30676(DE-B1597)521157(DE-B1597)9780520916418(Au-PeEL)EBL223334(CaPaEBR)ebr10048990(CaONFJC)MIL235627(EXLCZ)9911108212830211420010411d2002 uy 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrCool conduct[electronic resource] the culture of distance in Weimar Germany /Helmut Lethen ; translated by Don Reneau1st ed.Berkeley University of California Pressc20021 online resource (264 p.)Weimar and now ;17Description based upon print version of record.0-520-20109-4 0-585-46632-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-238) and index.Front matter --Contents --Preface to the American Edition --Acknowledgments --1. Fending Off Shame: The Habitus of Objectivity --2. The Rapture of Circulation and Schematicism --3. The Conduct Code of the Cool Persona --4. The Cool Persona in New Objectivity Literature --5. The Radar Type --6. The Creature --Afterword --Notes --IndexCool 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.Weimar and now ;17.Conduct of lifealienation.animosity.artificiality.civilization.community.cultural history.distance.empire.enemies.fascism.german history.germany.individualism.modernity.new objectivity.nonfiction.objectivity.personal conduct.post war.public sphere.shame.social order.society.stability.trauma.weimar republic.world war one.ww1.Conduct of life.943.085Lethen Helmut260572Reneau Don1051188Lethen Helmut, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/autMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456011903321Cool conduct2481508UNINA