Full name: The German Genius: Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution, and the Twentieth Century

Author: Peter Watson Year: 2010 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Science, Philosophy Culture: Germany Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780060760229 0060760222

is a virtuoso cultural history of German ideas and influence, from 1750 to the present day, by acclaimed historian Peter Watson ( ). From Bach, Goethe, and Schopenhauer to Nietzsche, Freud, and Einstein, from the arts and humanities to science and philosophy, is a lively and accessible review of over 250 years of German intellectual history. In the process, it explains the devastating effects of World War II, which transformed a vibrant and brilliantly artistic culture into a vehicle of warfare and destruction, and it shows how the German culture advanced in the war's aftermath. Similar books: Five Germanys I Have Known by Fritz Stern The Rise and Fall of Prussia by Sebastian Haffner The Ailing Empire by Sebastian Haffner Germany by Neil MacGregor Faust's Metropolis by Alexandra Richie The Weimar Republic by Detlev Peukert Weimar Culture by Peter Gay The Modern Mind by Peter Watson Before The Deluge by Otto Friedrich Weimar Germany by Eric D. Weitz Germany 1945 by Richard Bessel The German Dictatorship by Karl Dietrich Bracher Travellers in the Third Reich by Julia Boyd After the Reich by Giles MacDonogh Iron Kingdom by Christopher Clark Germania by Simon Winder The Beginnings of Western Science by David C. Lindberg The Invention of Science by David Wootton To Explain the World by Steven Weinberg