Germany at the fin de siècle : culture, politics, and ideas / edited by Suzanne Marchand and David Lindenfeld.

Papers from a conference held at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge in Sept. 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Germany at the fin de siècle: an introduction / David Lindenfeld and Suzanne Marchand -- Liberalism: adversarial or reformist?. Max Weber's Liberalism / Fritz Ringer ; From retributive justice to social defense: penal reform in fin-de-siècle Germany / Richard F. Wetzell -- Gendered discourse: emancipatory or proto-fascist?. Patriarchy and its discontents: the debate on the origins of the family in the German-speaking world, 1860-1930 / Ann Taylor Allen ; "Sexualkrise und rasse": feminist eugenics at the fin de siècle / Kevin Repp -- Elite culture: decadence or vitality?. Arnold Böcklin and the problem of German modernism / Suzanne Marchand ; Stefan George and androgyny / Robert E. Norton ; Death in Florence: Thomas Mann and the ideologies of Renaissancismus at the fin de siècle / Martin A. Ruhl -- Popular culture: divisive or integrative?. "Am I allowed to amuse myself here?" The German Bourgeoisie confronts early film / Peter Jelavich ; A world of their own?: Bourgeois encounters in Berlin's Jargon theaters, 1890-1920 / Marline Otte -- Anti-modern thought: pathological or prescient?. Two antimodern master narratives: Jung and Heidegger / David Lindenfeld.