Knowledge And Power: Essays On Politics, Culture, And War

Synopsis

Part One. Politics -- The Nineteenth Century : The Triumph And Crisis Of Liberalism -- Politics Of A Plague -- Demonic Democracy -- Berlin In The 1920s : The Capital Between Empire And Third Reich -- Working Toward The Führer -- Founding Father -- Part Two. Culture -- Great Scots! -- Frederick The Great And The Prussian Style -- Frederick The Great And Moses Mendelssohn : Thoughts On Jewish Emancipation -- The Magic Circle -- On The German Historical Consciousness -- Irony And Rage In The German Social Novel : Theodor Fontane And Heinrich Mann -- The Good, The Bad, And The Bourgeois -- The End Of The Golden Age -- Politics And Literature -- Berlin : The Hauptstadt, Back Where It Belongs -- Part Three. War -- Prussian Soldiers Against Militarism : Corvin, Willich, Engels, Rüstow -- The Political Leader As Strategist -- The War Against War -- A Very Strange Machine -- How To Think About The Swiss -- Fate And The Führer -- The Goblin At War -- The Russians Are Coming! -- Mission Possible -- Coda: History As A Humanistic Discipline. Gordon A. Craig ; Edited By Bruce Thompson, Carolyn Halladay, And Donald Abenheim. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.