The German Genius

composers, 155
modern repertoire, 308
nineteenth century achievement, 30
performance of sacred texts in the vernacular, 59–60
poetry and, 831
public concerts, 58–59, 161
race and, 908n30
refugees in Britain, 751–752
refugees in the United States, 735–736
Schopenhauer on, 334
serial, 584
symphony music, 59
Brahms and, 459, 461–462
emergence of, 161
Mozart, 158
during Third Reich, 641–645, 642, 643
Tristan und Isolde as beginning of modern music, 335
waltz, 463–464
during Weimar Republic, 583–587
music festivals, 164, 329, 644
Musikalische Patriot, Der (periodical), 60
Musikvereins, 325
Musil, Robert, 576–577, 735, 823, 855
Mutter, Anne-Sophie, 809
Mylius, Christlob, 102
Mysticism of Paul the Apostle, The (Mystik des Apostels Paulus), 682
Myth of the State, The (E. Cassirer), 606–607
Myth of the Twentieth Century, The (Der Mythus des 20. Jahrhunderts) (Rosenberg), 620
    N
     
“Nachruf” (Obituary) (Schneider), 802
Nachtsheim, Hans, 696
Nägeli, Carl, 285–286
Naked amidst Wolves (Nackt unter Wölfen) (Apitz), 795
Napoleon, 185–186, 212, 227, 261–262
Napoleon III, 372–373
Nathan der Weise (Nathan the Wise) (Lessing), 104, 314
nation, concept of, 262
National Broadcasting Company (Germany), 638
nationalism, 403, 417–437
cultural, 290, 437
of Fichte, 196
of Moeller van den Bruck, 617
versus rationalism, 619
scholarly, 266
Wagner and, 330
National Peace League and the Society for Racial Hygiene, 428
National Socialism, 562. See also Third Reich
coherence of systems of thought, 634
community and, 836
cultural/intellectual bases, 619–621
Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP), 620
Nations and Nationalism (Gellner), 755
Natorp, Paul, 773
Nature (journal), 653, 667, 690
nature, meaning of, 72, 201
Naturphilosophie, 201, 228, 342, 426–428
navy, 420, 421
Nazarenes. See Düreristen
Nazism. See National Socialism; Third Reich
Negri, Pola, 589
Nehamas, Alexander, 823
Neighbours (Gross), 18
neoclassicism, 209, 210, 211, 215
Neo-Conservatives, 617
neohumanism, 108, 109, 228
Neologists, 70–71
Nernst, Walter, 665
Netherlands, refugees in, 506, 507, 699
Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) movement, 568, 583
Neues vom Tage (Daily News) (Hindemith), 587
Neue Zeitschrift für Muzik (journal), 461
Neumann, Franz, 234, 236, 570, 572, 762, 768
Neumann, John von, 487, 739
Neumann, Sigmund, 570
Neumannm, Franz, 714
Neurath, Otto, 567, 602, 603
Neurotic Personality of Our Time, The (Horney), 613
Nevelson, Louise, 734, 735
New American Library, 735
New English Arts Club, 699
Newes, Tilly, 515
Newman, Ernest, 466
New Republic (magazine), 720
New School for Social Research (New York), 701, 720, 726, 736
newspapers, 829
after World War II, 758
in German in the United States, 325–326
New Sufferings of Young W., The (Die neuen Leiden des jungen W.) (Plenzdorf), 795
New Vienna Daily (newspaper), 472
New World, scientific discovery of, 177–181
New Yorker Staats-Zeitung, Die (newspaper), 326
Nicolai, Friedrich, 102
Niebuhr, Barthold, 231, 264
Niebuhr, Reinhold, 679
Niemöller, Martin, 686–687
Nierendorf, Karl, 735
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 296
anticipating Freud’s ideas, 394
contemporary world of ideas and, 819, 822–823
criticism of Cantor, 486
Fischer, Fritz, on, 536
influence of, 468, 517, 682
overlap with Weber, 826
use of term Aryan, 430
Wagner and, 335–338
Nietzsche contra Wagner (Nietzsche), 337
Nightingale, Florence, 317–318
nihilism, 147, 823–825
Nine Books of Prussian History (Neun Bücher preussische Geschichte) (Ranke), 268
Ninotchka (film), 589, 590–591
Nipperdey, Thomas, 30, 46, 58, 197, 227, 228, 232, 279, 305, 427, 446, 456
Nissel, Siegmund, 752
Nissen, Hans J., 844
Nixon, St. John, 376
Nobel Peace Prize, 681, 682, 814
Nobel Prize for Economics, 749
Nobel Prize for Literature, 404, 792, 814
Nobel Prize for Physics, 596, 598, 599
Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, 389, 391, 814
Noddack, Ida and Walter, 666
Nolde, Emil, 568, 630, 633
Nolte, Ernst, 11, 748
No Man’s Land (Dorle und Wolf) (Walser), 793
No More Parades (Ford), 579
Nonne, Max, 556
Non: Pour le Mérite (film), 640
Nordau, Max, 428, 431, 839
North German Confederation, 424
Norton, Anne, 723
Notes Towards the Definition of Culture (Eliot), 34, 840
Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg), 138, 191, 200
Novembergruppe, 568–569, 585
Novick, Peter, 7–8, 9, 10, 732
Nye, Mary Jo, 343
    O
     
Oberhausen Manifesto, 806
Oberländer, Theodor, 670
Oberth, Hermann, 693
Obrist, Hermann, 508, 509, 515, 516
Observe and