The German Genius

Die (Schubert), 307
Wirth, Herman, 655, 656
Wissenschaft, 53. See also science
Berlin University and, 87
Bildung versus, 838
Britain and, 538
Schelling on, 229
“Wissenschaft als Berug” (Science as a Vocation) (Weber), 457
Wissenschaft des Judentums, 619
Wissenschaftlichkeit as part of Bildung, 110
Wissenschaftsideologie, 228, 229, 230, 237
Wissenschaftsleher (Fichte), 119, 148–149, 150
Wistar, Caspar, 326
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 494, 552, 558–560, 561, 601, 753
Wittkower, Rudolf, 734, 753
Wöhler, Friedrich, 272, 273, 274, 275, 853
Wojtyla, Karol (John Paul II), 604
Wolf, Christa, 795, 796, 833
Wolf, Friedrich August, 105–108, 124, 832
classical philology and, 230
critical approach of, 232
on role of professors, 226, 228
student of Heyne, 228
at University of Berlin, 227, 228
Wolf, Hugo, 37, 305, 459, 462–463, 854
Wolf, Konrad, 806
Wolff, Abraham, 48
Wolff, Albert, 215
Wolff, Christian, 88, 136, 137
Wolff, Kaspar Friedrich, 281
Wolff, Kurt and Helen, 735
Wolin, Richard, 720, 772
Wollheim, Gert, 699
Wollheim, Richard, 753
Wols (Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze), 810–811
Woltmann, Ludwig, 431, 614
women’s movement, 425, 794
women writers in East Germany, 795
Woodward, Josiah, 316
Woolsey, Thomas Dwight, 324
“Word for the Germans, A” (Eliot), 316
Words and Things (Gellner), 755
Worker, The (Der Arbeiter) (Jünger), 709
Works of Art of the Future, The (Das Kunstwerk der Zukunft) (Wagner), 328
World as Will and Representation, The (Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung) (Schopenhauer), 327, 331, 394
World War I, 531–545
artists in Zurich during, 563–564
novels about, 579
poetry of, 547, 548–549
World War II
birthdate and, 761
Dietrich, Marlene, during, 593
music during, 809
Woyzeck (Büchner), 301–303
Woyzeck (opera, Berg), 302, 585
Wundt, Wilhelm, 33, 493, 533, 554, 682
Wyler, William, 736
    X
     
x-rays, 480
    Y
     
Yale University, German-trained professors at, 324
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (Vilna), 759
You and Me (film), 590
Youth Movement, 429
    Z
     
Zadkine, Ossip, 702
Zander, Michael, 746
Zeiss, Carl Fridrich, 365–366
Zeit, Die (newspaper), 490
Zeitgeist, 125, 497
Zeitgenossen, Die (Moeller van den Bruck), 617
Zeitschrift für Sozialwissenschaft (journal), 726
Zemlinsky, Alexander von, 591
Zentralblatt für Mathematik und ihre Grenzbebiete (journal), 663
Zero (art group), 811
Ziegler, Adolf, 632, 643
Ziegler, Wilhelm, 656
Zimbalist, Efrem, 702
Zimmer, Ernst, 292
Zimmermann, Bernd Alois, 810
Zinnemann, Fred, 587, 588, 590
Zionism, 499, 608, 609, 682
Zivilisation versus Kultur, 31, 532, 535–536, 838
Zmarzlik, Hans-Günter, 428
Zollverein, 370, 424
Zsigmondy, Richard, 390
Zuckmayer, Carl, 513, 586, 592, 738
“Zum ewigen Frieden” (Of Eternal peace) (Kant), 199
Zur Geschichte und Literatur (periodical), 103
“Zur Kritik neuerer Gechichtschreiber” (Ranke), 267
Zuse, Konrad, 693
Zwanzigst Jahrhundert, Das (magazine), 510–511
Zweig, Stefan, 49, 490, 641, 700, 746
Zwischen den Zeiten (journal), 677

About the Author
     
    PETER WATSON has been a senior editor at the London Sunday Times , the New York correspondent of the daily Times , and a columnist for the Observer . He has also written regularly for the New York Times and the Spectator . He is the author of several books of cultural and intellectual history, most recently Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud . From 1997 to 2007 he was a research associate at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge. He lives in London.
     
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Praise
     
    The split between Germany and the West will of necessity always be an important theme for historians.
    —H AJO H OLBORN
    The word “genius” in German has a special overtone, even a tinge of the demonic, a mysterious power and energy; a genius—whether artist or scientist—is considered to have a special vulnerability, a precariousness, a life of constant risk and often close to troubled turmoil.
    —F RITZ S TERN
    Geographically, America is for us among civilised countries the most distant; intellectually and spiritually, however, the closest and most like us.
    —A DOLF VON H ARNACK
    Asked in 1898 to choose a single defining event in recent history, the German Chancellor Bismarck replied, “North America speaks English.”
    —N ICHOLAS O STLER
    Our intellectual skyline has been altered by German thinkers even more radically than has