TY - BOOK ID - 525455 TI - Cool conduct : the culture of distance in Weimar Germany PY - 2002 SN - 0520916417 1282356275 0585466327 0520201094 PB - Berkeley : University of California Press, DB - UniCat KW - Conduct of life. KW - Germany KW - History KW - Social conditions KW - Ethics, Practical KW - Morals KW - Personal conduct KW - Weimar Republic, Germany, 1918-1933 KW - Ethics KW - Philosophical counseling KW - Sociology of culture KW - anno 1920-1929 KW - alienation. KW - animosity. KW - artificiality. KW - civilization. KW - community. KW - cultural history. KW - distance. KW - empire. KW - enemies. KW - fascism. KW - german history. KW - germany. KW - individualism. KW - modernity. KW - new objectivity. KW - nonfiction. KW - objectivity. KW - personal conduct. KW - post war. KW - public sphere. KW - shame. KW - social order. KW - society. KW - stability. KW - trauma. KW - weimar republic. KW - world war one. KW - ww1. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:525455 AB - 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. ER -