The decline of the German mandarins: The German academic community, 1890-1933 - Hardcover

Fritz K. Ringer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0196265401 ISBN 13: 9780196265407

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1969

Synopsis

1969. No edition remarks. 528 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Brown cloth. Library copy, with expected inserts and inscriptions. Bright and clean pages with light tanning to text block edges. Binding is firm throughout with mild thumb-marking. Moderate scuffing to rear pastedown and endpaper. Mild scuffing to front pastedown. Notable tape staining to pastedowns. Mild droplets to upper text block edge. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Mild tanning to spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Book has forward lean. Boards are mildly warped.

About this title

Review

Minerva"

Journal of Modern History"

Library Journal"

New Republic"

Ringer s excellent book certainly belongs among those which set themselves the task of explaining why Germany was different Jurgen Habermas, Minerva"

Indispensable reading for all students of modern German history Kenneth D. Barkin, Journal of Modern History"

An ambitious attempt to describe and analyze the political, social, and intellectual attitudes of the German academic community under William II and the Weiman republic. Mr. Ringer deserves a good deal of credit for his wide and thoughtful reading in this field of intellectual history, which is not easily surveyed, and for his evident efforts to present a fair appraisal. Library Journal"

What makes the book particularly useful, in addition to its thoroughness and meticulous documentation, is its eminent fair-mindedness. In the midst of reaction, complacency, and myth-making, there were professors, not radicals but firmly within the establishment, who broke loose from accepted commonplaces to make contributions to their disciplines that remain of significance today. These men one thinks of Max Weber above all were complicated creatures, and Ringer judiciously finds his way through the literature and jumble of conflicting claims. Peter Gay, New Republic"

-Ringer's excellent book certainly belongs among those which set themselves the task of explaining 'why Germany was different'---Jurgen Habermas, Minerva

-Indispensable reading for all students of modern German history---Kenneth D. Barkin, Journal of Modern History

About the Author

Born in Ludwighafen, Germany, FRITZ K. RINGER came to the United States with his family in 1949. He is Mellon Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh. This book, first published in 1969, received much attention in its 1983 German edition. He is also author of The German Inflation of 1923 (1969) and Education and Society of Modern Europe (1979), and co-editor of The Rise of the Modern Educational System (1987).

Edition details

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1969
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0196265401
• ISBN 13: 9780196265407
• Binding: Hardcover