The German Genius

this chapter is taken from Thomas Mann, Betrachtungen eines Unpolitischen (Berlin: G. Fischer, 1918/1922). Translated by W. D. Morris as Reflections of a Non-Political Man (New York: F. Ungar, 1983). The quotation appears in W. H. Bruford, The German Tradition of Self-Cultivation: Bildung from Humboldt to Thomas Mann (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975), p. vii.
1. W. H. Auden, Collected Shorter Poems, 1930–1944 (London: Faber, 1950), pp. 171–175.
2. R. P. T. Davenport-Hines, Auden (London: Heinemann, 1995), p. 157.
3. Benjamin Nelson, ed., Freud and the 20th Century (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1958), p. 13.
4. Ibid., p. 14.
5. Ibid., p. 17.
6. Frank Furedi, Therapy Culture: Cultivating Vulnerability in an Uncertain Age (London: Routledge, 2004). And see, for example, Dennis Hayes, “Happiness Drives Education from the Classroom,” Times Higher Education Supplement , September 14, 2007, p. 22.
7. Richard Lapierre, The Freudian Ethic (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1960), p. 60.
8. Watson, Modern Mind/Terrible Beauty , p. 601.
9. See, for example, Alexandra Blair, “Expulsion of Under-Fives Triples in a Year,” Times (London), April 20, 2007, p. 17; and Alexandra Frean, “Emphasis on Emotions Creates ‘Can’t Do’ Students,” Times (London), June 12, 2008, p. 13.
10. I have used Bernd Magnus and Kathleen M. Higgins, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), p. 282.
11. Ibid., p. 309–310.
12. Ibid., p. 314.
13. Ibid., p. 2.
14. Ibid., p. 4.
15. Ibid., p. 225.
16. Lawrence Scaff, Fleeing the Iron Cage (Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 1989), p. 226.
17. Ibid., p. 230.
18. Magnus and Higgins, eds., Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche , p. 80.
19. Ibid., p. 82.
20. Ibid., p. 172.
21. Barbara Tuchman, The Proud Tower (London: Folio Society, 1995), p. 284.
22. Hew Strachan, The Outbreak of the First World War (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), p. 183.
23. James Bowen, A History of Western Education. 3 vols. (London: Methuen, 1981), vol. 1, pp. 321 and 345.
24. Times (London), March 23, 2006, p. 9.
25. Gertrude Himmelfarb, The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American Enlightenments (New York: Vintage, 2005), p. 51.
26. See the note at the head of this chapter.
27. Erica Carter, “Culture, History and National Identity in the Two Germanies, 1945–1999,” in Fulbrooke, Twentieth-Century Germany , p. 266.
28. Müller, Another Country , pp. 172–173.
29. Ibid., p. 71.
30. Ibid., p. 161.
31. Ibid., p. 189.
32. Müller, German Ideologies since 1945 , p. 131.
33. Müller, Another Country , pp. 179 and 196.
34. Ringer, Decline of the German Mandarins , p. 29.
35. Scaff, Fleeing the Iron Cage , p. 96.
36. Müller, Another Country , op. cit ., p. 23.
37. Ibid., p. 155.
38. Ibid., p. 175.
39. Wuthnow, Cultural Analysis , p. 189.
40. Schivelbusch, Culture of Defeat , p. 231.
41. Hannah Arendt, Burden of Our Time , p. 320–321.
42. Ibid., p. 324.
43. Ibid., p. 326.
44. Niall Ferguson, The War of the World: History’s Age of Hatred (London: Allen Lane, 2006), p. 243.
45. Jarausch, After Hitler , p. 100.
46. Ibid., pp. 139f.
47. Müller, Another Country , p. 131.
48. Burns, German Cultural Studies , pp. 253 and 257.
49. Daily Telegraph (London), June 11, 2006, p. 24.
50. Times Higher Education Supplement , March 27, 2008, p. 19.
51. Times Higher Education Supplement , May 22, 2008, p. 19.
52. Jürgen Habermas, The Future of Human Nature (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2003), p. 38.
53. Ibid., p. 39.
54. Ibid., p. 48.
55. Ibid., p. 56.
56. Ibid., pp. 79–81.
57. Ibid., p. 87.
58. The memories of these policies were reinforced in May 2008 when Dr. Hans-Joachim Sewering, who had been linked with the murder of 900 children at Eglfing-Haar extermination camp, received the German Federation of Internal Medicine’s highest honor, the Günter-Budelmann medal. Johannes Rau, “Der Mensch ist jetzt Mitspieler der Evolution geworden,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , May 19, 2001.
59. Crawshaw, Easier Fatherland , p. 219.

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