"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.
| ISBN: | 9780520201095 |
| Publication date: | 27th March 2002 |
| Author: | Helmut Lethen |
| Publisher: | University of California Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 263 pages |
| Series: | Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism |
| Genres: |
Cultural studies European history Regional / International studies |