The German Genius

796, 801
Küng, Hans, 786
“Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit, Das” (Benjamin), 709
Kuntze, Reiner, 801
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Laak, Dirk van, 779
Laban, Rudolf, 744, 804
laboratories, 355–367, 476
Labouring Men (Hobsbawm), 749
Lachmann, Karl Konrad, 232
Lacquer, Walter, 563
Lagarde, Paul de, 434–435, 614, 839
Lagrange, Joseph-Louis, 353
Lam, Wilfredo, 701
Lamentations of Germany, The (Vincent), 44
Lamprecht, Karl, 33, 533
Landes, David, 732
Lane, Allen, 748
Lane, George, 324
Lang, Fritz, 587, 589–590, 702
Langbehn, Julius, 432–433, 452, 522, 614, 839
Lange, Bernd Lutz, 781
Langhans, Carl Gotthard, 211–212, 213
language. See also German language
Herder on, 124
as identifier of Volk or nationality, 124–125
importance at University of Göttingen, 51
as main focus of education, 110
Language, Truth and Logic (Ayer), 631
Lanner, Josef, 464
Laplace, Pierre-Simon, 139, 171
Large, David Clay, 520
Lasch, Christopher, 821–822
Lasker, Edward, 521
Lassen, Christian, 184
Lasson, Adolf, 535
Last, R. W., 579, 583
Last Command, The (film), 593
Last Days of Mankind, The (Die letzten Tage der Menschheit) (Kraus), 490, 553
Laterndl (cabaret), 746
Laube, Heinrich, 303
Laudan, Rachel, 170
Laue, Max von, 480, 659, 665, 692
Lavery, John, 505
law
codification of Prussian law, 63
as defining achievement of civilization, 265
historicism and, 264–266
legal justification for the Nazi laws, 650
natural law, 72, 194
Lawyers, The (Die Juristen) (Hochhuth), 780, 802
Lazarsfeld, Paul, 716, 726–727, 741
Lazarus, Moritz, 445
League of German Societies for Folklore, 655
League of the Just, 250, 253
Leander, Zarah, 639
Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret), 510, 571
Lecture Hall, The (Die Aula) (H. Kant), 795
Lectures on the Philosophy of History (Vorlesungen über die Philosophie der Geschichte) (Hegel), 243
Leeuwenhoek, Anton van, 281
Legend of Paul and Paula, The (film), 806
Lehar, Franz, 584
Lehmann, Karl, 734
Lehrhaus Movement, 619
Leibniz, Gottfried, 57, 69, 79, 85, 88, 123–125
Leistikow, Walter, 528
Leitz, Ernst, 365, 366, 367
Lenard, Philipp, 533, 599, 649, 652, 672
Lenau, Nikolaus, 771
Lenoir, Timothy, 37, 83
Lenz (Büchner), 302
Lenz (Schneider), 793–794
Lenz, Johann Michael Reinhold, 77
Lenz, Max, 409, 533, 876n32
Leo Baeck Institute for the Study of the History and Culture of German-speaking Jewry, 750
Leonce und Lena (Büchner), 302
Lepenies, Wolf, 30–33
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 78, 101–105, 124, 131, 215, 623
Letters from Berlin (Briefe aus Berlin) (Heine), 298
Letters on the Kantian Philosophy (Briefe über die kantische Philosophie) (Reinhold), 147
Levassor, Émile, 377
Levi, Erik, 642, 644, 645, 810
Levi, Hermann, 643
Levi-Civita, Tullio, 663
Lewes, George Henry, 314, 315–316
Lewin, Kurt, 716, 717
Libermann, Max, 33, 505–507, 515, 527, 528, 532, 629
Licht (Light) (operas, Stockhausen), 810
Liebenfels, Jörg Lanz von, 434
Liebig, Justus von, 272, 275, 279–281, 318, 341, 358, 366, 853
Liebknecht, Karl, 565
“Lied der Deutschen, Das” (Hoffmann von Fallersleven), 299
Lieder (Schubert), 160, 305
“Lieutenant Gustl” (Schnitzler), 491
Life of Jesus, The (Das Leben Jesu) (Strauss), 245, 256, 316
Light Years (Lichtjahre) (Weidermann), 798–799
Lilge, Frederic, 765–766
Linde, Carl von, 378
Lindner, Richard, 735
Link, Heinrich Friedrich, 81
Lion Has Wings, The (film), 746
Lipstadt, Deborah, 7
List, Friedrich, 325, 878n31
Liszt, Franz, 133, 460, 466
literacy rates, 56, 426, 829
literature. See also Nobel Prize for Literature; poetry
Asphaltliteraten, 635
in East Germany, 794–796
German-Americans and, 325
novella, 296–297
novels
Bildung in, 833
Bildungsroman, 119, 295, 297
contemporary, 844
Entwicklungsroman, 440
sociocritical, 304
Vaterromane (father novels), 791, 794
professional, 232
Trümmerliteratur, 790
tuberculosis in, 389
Lives of Others, The (film), 808
Lixfeld, Hannjost, 654
Locarno Pact (1925), 595
Locquin, Jean, 210
Loeffler, Friedrich, 387, 388
Logical Foundation of Probability (Carnap), 729
Logical Investigations (Logische Untersuchungen) (Husserl), 494
Logical Structure of the World, The (Der logische Aufbau der Welt) (Carnap), 729
Logic of Scientific Discovery, The (Logik der Forschung) (Popper), 706, 749
Logic of the Cultural Sciences, The (Zur Logik der Kulturwissenschaften) (E. Cassirer), 606
Loos, Adolf, 212, 215, 497
Lorenz, Konrad, 696–697
Lorre, Peter, 586, 590, 702
Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (Die verlorene Ehre der katharina Blum) (Böll), 792
Lost Weekend,