Modernism Between Weimar and the Third Reich - Peter Paret

Peter Paret
Institute for Advanced Study
March 2, 2008
Peter Paret, Professor Emeritus, School of Historical Studies. From 1933 to 1945, a culture war was waged between National-Socialism and modernism in the arts. In this lecture, given in conjunction with a performance by the Princeton Symphony Orchestra featuring works by Mendelssohn, Schulhoff, and von Webern, Peter Paret explains that although their compositions were stylistically different, they were attacked for the same underlying reason: Hitler’s concept of the arts as an arena of ideological, racial, and political conflict over Germany’s present and future.
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Welcome to the Weimar Republic. "Without God, everything is permissible" -Dostoevsky

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i love it if i did the same thing they did and taught the same thing they taught.

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similar to what artists are experiencing today...

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Yeah, all those people who were mad at Lil Nas X? So annoying.
Same for modern abstract art.

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Excellent presentation on the moral confusion of the Weimar republic. The Sexual nihilism of Berlin created a culture of sexual liberation. Weimar Berlin established the major problem with the question of modernity in that it is grounded in historical relativity. Berlin became a city of homosexuality, nudism, pornography, group sex, prostitution, drugs, and topless clubs. The artistic culture hardly reflected the level of deviancy of Weimar Germany.

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Carama Gambino do you have any links to these studies ?

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Here at the IAS we think liberalism is really great

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@@jcjc5702 classical liberalism is not modern liberalism. IAS uses the classical definition of liberalism. Modernity has perverted the meanings of many words, liberalism being just one of them.
Modern liberalism seeks the opposite of what classical liberalism stood and stands for.

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Our old Hegelian Idealism vs Marxist Materialism (in social sciences) might be a false "debate." Demographic trajectories in handfuls of variables explains a great deal of pathologies. Pathologies are not imagined but realized, witnessed and replicated. And then they replicate relatively unchecked. A small number of people, "super spreaders" if you like, can do a great deal of damage.

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@@scottmcloughlin4371 considering that Marxist materialism is rooted in Hegel and the alchemical idealism Hegel posited I'd say it's more than likely that the debate is a false one.

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Americans think fast food is culture