Weimar Republic The Crisis of Classical Modernity

The nature of Weimar's terminal crisis - how a politically liberal and culturally progressive society could succomb to fascism - remains one of the central historical questions of our century. In this major work, Detlev J.K. Peukert offers a stimulating interpretation that not only places Weimar in the history of twentieth-century Germany but also reveals it as an archetype of the ambivalences and pathologies of advanced industrial society.Peukert, Detlev J. is the author of 'Weimar Republic The Crisis of Classical Modernity', published 1993 under ISBN 9780809015566 and ISBN 0809015560.