![]() ![]() ![]() English now dominates the arts and sciences, but Watson writes an absorbing account of a time not so long ago when German ruled. This led to trouble, but until Hitler wrecked everything after 1933, Germans won more Nobel prizes than Britain and America combined. An ominous byproduct, though, was a growing, pugnacious sense of national superiority. Kant, Marx, Hegel, Nietzsche, and others dominated Western intellectual life. From Bach to Schoenberg, music became overwhelmingly German. Modern medicine started as German medicine (bacteriology began with Robert Koch). The German Genius: Europes Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution and the Twentieth Century : Watson, Peter: : Books Books History Europe Buy new: 24.99 FREE delivery on first order. Science flourished, stimulated by new university-based laboratories. ![]() There followed a cultural renaissance as important as Italy’s earlier one. The same era in Germany produced the modern university-in which professors are expected to discover, not just teach, knowledge, and students learn to reason, not just memorize-and new forms of scholarship. Stirred by the French Revolution, German nationalism exploded. The German Genius Europes Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution and the Twentieth Century By: Peter Watson Narrated by: Richard Attlee Length: 36 hrs and 36 mins 4.5 (2 ratings) Try for 0.00 Prime member exclusive: pick 2 free titles with trial. We are shamefully ignorant of German culture, asserts veteran British historian Watson (The Modern Mind) in this engrossing, vast chronicle of ideas, humanists, scientists, and artists: Bach, Goethe, Hegel, Gauss, and many more. ![]()
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