{"product_id":"the-politics-of-cultural-despair-9780520026261","title":"The Politics of Cultural Despair","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFeatures a study in the pathology of cultural criticism. By analyzing the thought and influence of three leading critics of modern Germany, It demonstrates the dangers and dilemmas of a particular type of cultural despair.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface Introduction  I. Paul de Lagarde and a Germanic Region 1. The Critic as Academician 2. The Idealism of Antimodernity 3. The Germanic Religion 4. The Germanic Nation 5. The Corruption of German Education 6. The Prophet Remembered  II. Julius Langbehn and Germanic Irrationalism 7. The Critic as a Failure 8. Art and the Revolt against Modernity 9. Art, Politics, and the Heroic Folk 10. Langbehm and the Crisis of the 1890's  III. Moeller van den Bruck and the Third Reich 11. The Critic as Exile 12. The Esthete's Turn to Politics 13. The Conscience of the Right 14. Toward the Third Reich  Conclusion: From Idealism to Nihilism Notes Acknowledgment Bibliography Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402786546007,"sku":"9780520026261","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-politics-of-cultural-despair-9780520026261","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}