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The Seduction of Culture IN ERMAN ISTORY G H This page intentionally left blank The Seduction of Culture IN ERMAN ISTORY G H O Wolf Lepenies Princeton University Press X Princeton & Oxford ©2006byPrincetonUniversityPress PublishedbyPrincetonUniversityPress,41WilliamStreet, Princeton,NewJersey08540 IntheUnitedKingdom:PrincetonUniversityPress,3MarketPlace, Woodstock,OxfordshireOX201SY AllRightsReserved LIBRARYOFCONGRESSCATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATIONDATA Lepenies,Wolf. TheseductionofcultureinGermanhistory/WolfLepenies. p. cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN-13:978-0-691-12131-4(alk.paper) ISBN-10:0-691-12131-1(alk.paper) 1.Politicsandculture—Germany—History—18thcentury.2.Germany— History—Philosophy.3.Politicsandculture—Germany—History—19th century.4.Politicsandculture—Germany—History—20thcentury. 5.Germany—Intellectuallife—18thcentury.6.Germany—Intellectuallife— 19thcentury.7.Germany—Intellectuallife—20thcentury.8.Germany— Culturalpolicy.9.Nationalsocialism—Moralandethicalaspects. 10.Germany—Historiography.I.Title. DD97.L47 2006 943—dc22 2005048907 BritishLibraryCataloging-in-PublicationDataisavailable ThisbookhasbeencomposedinAdobeCaslon Printedonacid-freepaper.∞ pup.princeton.edu PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 To The School of Social Science Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey This page intentionally left blank ONTENTS C Introduction Bombs over Dresden and the Rosenkavalier in the Skies 1 1. Culture: A Noble Substitute 9 LessonsinDiminishedParticularity 9 AStrangeIndifferencetoPolitics 11 TheGermanSpiritandtheGermanReich 16 2. From the Republic into Exile 27 ReflectionsofaPoliticalThomasMann 27 TheAestheticAppealofFascism 36 ArtandMorality 45 TheBlurringofExileandEmigration 48 3. Novalis and Walt Whitman: German Romanticism and American Democracy 56 ACountrywithoutanOpera 56 JosephinAmerica 60 GermanDemocraticVistas 63 Emerson’sSponsors:Beethoven&Bettina 70 4. German Culture Abroad: Victorious in Defeat 76 TheClosingoftheAmericanMind 76 TheGermanMindinJeopardy 85 ACalmGood-ByetoEurope 88 5. French-German Culture Wars 93 TwoRevolutions 93 GoetheinExile 98 “CultureWars”andTheirOrigin 100 APuzzleintheHistoryofSociology 105 AMediator:MauriceHalbwachs 107 AnExpulsionfromBerlin 110 TheMurderofMauriceHalbwachs 112 StrangeDefeat 114 IntellectualResistance 116 LimitsoftheGermanRevolution 122 viii CONTENTS 6. German Culture at Home: A Moral Failure Turned to Intellectual Advantage 128 TheGermanCatastrophe 128 TheResurrectionofCulture 134 InnerEmigrationandItsDiscontents 138 GermanandJewishDiaspora 145 7. The Survival of the Typical German: Faust versus Mephistopheles 154 GoetheinthePolls 154 Goetheafter1945 159 8. German Reunification: The Failure of the Interpreting Class 165 CulturalGuardians 165 IntellectualDisasterintheEast 167 IntellectualTragicomedy 170 9. Culture as Camouflage: The End of Central Europe 176 Europe:DreamandBureaucracy 176 AVictoryofCultureoverPower 178 10. Irony and Politics: Cultural Patriotism in Europe and the United States 186 AnAmericanPatriotfromEurope 186 HamletandFortinbras 190 EuropeanPygmiesandtheAmericanGiant 195 TheIronyofAmericanHistory 196 11. Germany after Reunification: In Search of a Moral Masterpiece 200 CultureandRealpolitik 200 SolvingPoliticalProblemsintheFieldofCulture 203 Notes 211 Bibliography 237 Acknowledgments 249 Index 251 The Seduction of Culture IN ERMAN ISTORY G H
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