Author: Lethen, Helmiut
Title: Cool Conduct: The Culture of Distance in Weimar Germany
Description: Berkeley, Univ. of California Press, (2002). orig. cloth. 23x15cm, xiv,249 pp, Series: Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism, 17. Translated by Don Reneau.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Fending Off Shame: The Habitus of Objectivity; The Rapture of Ciruclation & Schematicism; The Conduct Code of the Cool Persona; The Cool Persona in New Objectivity Literature; The Radar Type; The Creature. ["" 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" - Publisher's description].

Keywords: German Cultural History, Weimar Germany, Distance, Closeness, Critical Theory, Social Sociology, Anthropology, ,