The authors of this book believe that it should be possible for these professional mathematicians to explain to non-professionals what they do, what they say they are doing, and why the world should support them at it.

Drawing from such primary sources as magazines, newspapers, manifestoes, and official documents (many unknown even to specialists and most never before available in English), this book challenges the traditional boundaries between politics, ...

A study of German culture between the two wars, this book brilliantly traces the rise of the artistic, literary, and musical culture that bloomed ever so briefly in the 1920s amid the chaos of Germany's tenuous post-World War I democracy, ...

Bambach's account of the demise of historicism within the context of German metaphysics provides a new perspective on the development of Heidegger's concept of "historicity" and on the origins of postmodern thought.

The bibliography, updated to February 1987, includes some English-language titles not in the original German edition, and is a list of tremendous value.

This work provides comprehensive coverage of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Germany from the point of view of this new field.

It would not be complete without occasional glances beyond avant-garde thought and creation and their effects upon traditional German social and cultural attitudes and the often violent reactions against "Weimar" that would culminate with ...

This book sheds new light on orthodox medicine and medical science in the interwar years.

This is a study in the pathology of cultural criticism.