The German Genius
Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution and the Twentieth Century
Impossibile aggiungere al carrello
Puoi avere soltanto 50 titoli nel carrello per il checkout.
Riprova più tardi
Riprova più tardi
Rimozione dalla Lista desideri non riuscita.
Riprova più tardi
Non è stato possibile aggiungere il titolo alla Libreria
Per favore riprova
Non è stato possibile seguire il Podcast
Per favore riprova
Esecuzione del comando Non seguire più non riuscita
Attiva il tuo abbonamento Audible con un periodo di prova gratuito per ottenere questo titolo a un prezzo esclusivo per i membri
Dopo 30 giorni (60 per i membri Prime), 9,99 €/mese. Puoi cancellare ogni mese
Dopo esserti registrato per un abbonamento, puoi acquistare questo e tutti gli altri audiolibri nel nostro catalogo esteso, ad un prezzo scontato del 30%
Ottieni accesso illimitato a una raccolta di oltre migliaia di audiolibri e podcast originali.
Nessun impegno. Cancella in qualsiasi momento e conserva tutti i titoli acquistati.
The German Genius
Letto da:
Richard Attlee
Acquista ora a 26,57 €
-
Letto da:
-
Richard Attlee
-
Di:
-
Peter Watson
‘A compelling, epic tale’ Financial Times
Peter Watson's magisterial sweep through modern German thought and culture confounds stereotypes that the world has of Germany, and Germany has of itself.
From the end of the Baroque age and the death of Bach to the rise of Hitler in 1933, Germany was transformed from a poor relation among Western nations into a dominant intellectual and cultural force in the Western world. In the early decades of the 20th century German artists, writers, philosophers, scholars, scientists and engineers were leading their country to new heights, and by 1933 Germany had won more Nobel prizes than any other nation, including Britain and America put together.
How did the Germans transform their country so as to achieve such pre-eminence? In this absorbing cultural and intellectual history, Peter Watson explores the origins of the German genius, and convincingly demonstrates that it was German thinking – from Beethoven and Kant to Diesel and Nietzsche, from Goethe and Wagner to Mendel and Planck, from Hegel and Marx to Freud and Schonberg – that has done more than anything else to create the modern West.
adbl_web_anon_alc_button_suppression_t1
Recensioni della critica
'Here we have an encyclopaedic survey in which every famour German artist and thinker, and many who should be more famous than they are, finds a place'
'A compelling, epic tale of how a nation that was one of the least-developed in western Europe in the mid-18th century became one of the most rich, powerful and cultured, right up until the calamity of National Socialism'
'A tour de force . . . This intelligent book presents a breath-taking panorama. Let us hope that it suceeds in its aim and stimulates a wider and deeper engagement with the country of Kant, Beethoven, Einstein and Habermas' (Christopher Clark)
'A journalist of heroic industry . . . Watson is never not good company . . . [He] derives the German genius from deep springs'
'The reason Peter Watson gives for writing this long intellectual history of Germany since 1750 is a convincing one; that British obsession with Nazism has blinded many British people to the achievements of German culture . . . An introduction to other German history is welcome' (Alexander Starritt)
'A joy, for its ambition, its seriousness and its moral integrity'
'[An] eight-hundred-and-fifty-page love letter to the all-stars of the Teutonic intellect . . . His élan generates its own momentum'
'A powerful and vivid opus . . . Watson's story is brimming with life. You can barely put the book aside'
'No one who reads this book can be left in any doubt as to the reality of 'the German Genius' proclaimed by the title. He has an enviable gift of explaning lucidly and cogently ideas that are complicated or profound (or both). The Germans may well 'dive deeper but come up muddier', as Wickham Steed famously observed, but Watson strips off the ordure with crisp common sense . . . everyone interested in the sufferings and greatness of modern culture will be informed, entertained and provoked by it'
'A compilation of essential German contributions to philosophy, theology, mathematics, natural and social science and the arts since 1750. Watson enshrines a vast pantheon of creative thinkers . . . [including] compressed summaries of some exceedingly difficult ideas. The range of subjects is impressive, from painters to physicists'
Ancora nessuna recensione