Weimar Culture

The Outsider as Insider

De: Peter Gay

Narrado por: James Anderson Foster

A seminal work as melodious and haunting as the era it chronicles.

First published in 1968, Weimar Culture is one of the masterworks of Peter Gay's distinguished career. A study of German culture between the two wars, the book brilliantly traces the rise of the artistic, literary, and musical culture that bloomed ever so briefly in the 1920s amid the chaos of Germany's tenuous post-World War I democracy, and crashed violently in the wake of Hitler's rise to power. Despite the ephemeral nature of the Weimar democracy, the influence of its culture was profound and far-reaching, ushering in a modern sensibility in the arts that dominated Western culture for most of the 20th century. Vivid and highly engaging, Weimar Culture is the finest introduction for the casual listener and historian alike.

©1968, 2001 Peter Gay (P)2019 Tantor

This book is great.

Awesome book! As someone interested in the abstract side of modernism, this is very interesting.

Weimar culture was shone

I read Weimar culture many years ago. I did not realize how much I missed. This book is rich in insights about a culturally fertile period that emerged after the war and was killed by the depression, unemployment, and other circumstances that were not inevitable. Deservedly a classic.

Engaging book, terrible narrator

Peter Gay’s book is a concise, highly readable and engaging in history of Germany between the wars. Unfortunately, the narrator is atrocious. He has an awful accent in both French and German. Although the English passages are fine, there are enough references to German and French people, places names and phrases that it really distracted. While the book gets five stars, the performance and the narrator’s ‘s inability to correctly pronounce words really ruins it. I still listened all the way through but I wish someone would re-record this important book with a competent narrator who can pronounce Poincaré or gauche correctly.

Somehow, Peter Gay made Weimar boring…

In the end, I don’t think Gay has any real ‘feel’ for his subject. Ironically for a book published in 1968, there’s no quality of revolution. It feels remote, cold, and haughty.