The 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.