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by Peter Watson


  Love Parade, The (film), 589

  Lovett, Martin, 752

  Lowenthal, Leo, 572, 608

  Löwenthal, Richard, 750

  Löwith, Karl, 720, 768, 772–773

  Loyalty Law (1952), 772

  Lübbe, Hermann, 23, 784

  Lubitsch, Ernst, 552, 587, 589

  Luden, Heinrich, 266

  Ludendorff, Erich, 560, 566

  Ludwig I (Bavaria), 218

  Ludwig I (Hesse), 273

  Ludwig II (Bavaria), 329

  Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy (Ludwig Feuerbach und der Ausgang der klassischen deutschen Philosophie) (Engels), 258

  Lueger, Karl, 434, 501–502

  Luisa Miller (Verdi), 128

  Lukács, Georg, 37, 298, 449, 703, 762

  Lulu (opera, Berg), 515, 585, 643

  Lulu (Wedekind), 515, 585

  Lunasharski, Anatoly, 823

  Lüpertz, Markus, 812

  Lust (Jelinek), 794

  Luther, Martin, 26, 87

  Luxemburg, Rosa, 565, 820

  M

  M (film), 590

  Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 264

  Mach, Ernst, 495, 500, 576

  Machinist Hopkins (Brandt), 587

  Machlup, Fritz, 727

  Macke, August, 552

  Magee, Bryan, 327, 331, 334

  Magic Flute, The (Die Zauberflöte) (Mozart), 158, 747

  Magic Mountain, The (Der Zauberberg) (T. Mann), 562, 575

  Magnus, Bernd, 823

  Mahler, Gustav, 336, 459, 467, 469–470, 558, 591

  Mahler-Werfel, Alma, 465, 701, 702

  Maier, Charles, 11, 28

  Major, Traugott, 215

  Makela, Maria, 505

  Malkin, Joseph, 702

  Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (Drucker), 728

  Man for Himself (Fromm), 719

  Manifesto of the 93, 33–34, 532, 676–677, 840

  reaction abroad, 537, 539

  Mann, Erika, 648, 817

  Mann, Heinrich, 510–514, 562–563, 701, 702, 735

  Mann, Klaus, 648, 710, 737–738, 817

  Mann, Thomas, 21, 510–514, 575–576, 618, 654, 741

  on Decline of the West, 561

  “Gedanke im Krieg,” 34

  influenced by early Romantics, 200

  on Kultur, 532, 535–536

  on Lagarde, 435

  meaning of German for, 37

  on Munich, 503

  on redemptive community, 836

  refugee in the United States, 700, 702, 737–738

  on Stifter, 296

  on Wagner and Schopenhauer, 327

  on World War I, 562

  Mannheim, Karl, 37, 605, 608, 631, 703–704, 741, 745, 754, 914n7

  Mannheim Gas Engine Company, 375

  Man without Qualities, The (Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften) (Musil), 576–577, 855

  Marat/Sade (Weiss), 803

  Marc, Franz, 517, 552, 832

  Marchand, Suzanne, 106, 107, 832

  Marcks, Erich, 533

  Marcuse, Herbert, 720, 722, 779

  attempt to merge Freudianism and Marxism, 572–573

  Frankfurt school and, 572

  students of the 1960s and, 719

  Maria Stuart (Schiller), 131, 132

  Marr, Wilhelm, 522

  Marrus, Michael R., 16

  Marx, Eleanor, 249, 256

  Marx, Karl, 246–247, 250–256

  contemporary world of ideas and, 819–820

  Hess and, 247

  impact of Strauss’ Life of Jesus on, 245

  influence of, 571, 713

  opposition to, 704, 707–708

  Marxism, 240

  Darwinism and, 428

  Freudianism and, 572–573

  Habermas on, 776

  Masaryk, Jan, 701

  Masaryk, Tomáš, 492–493

  Maser, Werner, 616

  Maslich, Bruce, 247

  masochism, coining of term, 496

  Masson, André, 701

  Mass Psychology of Fascism, The (Die Massenpsychologie des Faschismus) (Reich), 719

  Mathematical Reviews (journal), 663–664

  mathematics, 349–353, 484–487

  Gauss and, 171–173, 852

  intellectural overlap with physics, 600–601

  matrix math, 597

  under Nazis, 910n41

  versus poetry, 76–77

  at University of Göttingen, 51

  Mathis der Maler (Hindemith), 644

  Mattusek, Matthias, 1–2, 5

  Mattusek, Thomas, 1, 3–4, 6

  Maude, F. N., 188

  Maupertuis, Pierre de, 61

  Max Planck Institute, 775, 814

  Max Weber and Karl Marx (Löwith), 772

  Max Weber und die deutsche Politik (Mommsen), 762

  Maxwell, James Clark, 347, 476

  May, Joe, 716

  Maybach, Wilhelm, 376, 377, 378

  Mayer, Julius Robert von, 341–342, 344

  May Laws, 425

  Mayr, Ernst, 80, 84, 917n60

  Mazlish, Bruce, 252, 253, 254

  McDougall, William, 538, 615

  McGrath, Alistair, 674

  McLellan, David, 247, 257

  McLuhan, Marshall, 619

  Meaning in History (Löwith), 772

  mechanists. See atheism

  Meckel, Christoph, 796

  Meckel, Johann Friedrich, 81

  medicine, 383–397

  antibiotics, 390

  cancer, German scholarship on, 664–665

  homeopathy, 174–177

  physicians and Nazi party, 661

  Medicine (Klimt), 498

  Medizinische Reform, Die (weekly), 384

  Meidner, Ludwig, 528, 699, 746

  Meier, Christopher, 12

  Meinecke, Friedrich, 263, 409, 532, 533, 534, 535, 731, 836

  Meinecke, Thomas, 799

  Meiner, Ludwig, 630

  Meiners, Christoph, 430

  Meinhof, Ulrike, 780

  Mein Kampf (Hitler), 614, 632, 661

  Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Die (Wagner), 329, 334

  Meitner, Lise, 666

  Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (Sassoon), 579

  Mendel, Gregor, 37, 86, 286, 391–393, 819

  Mendelssohn, Felix, 133, 239, 298, 307, 308–309

  Mendelssohn, Moses, 74–75, 78, 102–103, 136, 137

  Mengele, Josef, 697

  Mengs, Anton Raphael, 207–208, 215

  Mengs, Ismael, 207

  Menschen am Sonntag (film), 588, 590

  Menzel, Adolf von, 526

  Merck, Johann, Heinrich, 77

  Merkur (magazine), 782

  Merry Vineyard, The (Der fröhliche Weinberg) (Zuckmayer), 592

  Merz, John Theodore, 170

  Messiah, The (Der Messias) (Klopstock), 102

  Metamorphosis (Die Erwandlung) (Kafka), 577, 578

  Metropolis (film), 590

  Metropolis and Mental Life, The (Die Großstadt und das Geistesleben) (Simmel), 448–449

  Metternich, Klemens von, 304

  Meyer, Carl, 568

  Meyer, Eduard, 533

  Meyer, Karl, 374

  Meyer, Rudolf, 296

  Michaelis, Johann D., 71, 72–73, 200, 227

  Michael Kohlhaas (Kleist), 293

  Michelet, Jules, 92, 395

  Micrographia (Hooke), 281

  microscope, 283–284, 365–367, 386, 387, 390

  Middendorf, Helmut, 812–813

  middle class

  Biedermeier culture and, 306

  educated, 403, 837

  cultural pessimism and, 840

  versus the rest, 828–830

  political exclusion, 403

  use of Darwinism as ideological weapon, 426–428

  Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (film), 736

  Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 215, 510, 571, 758

  military

  aerial warfare, 545

/>   chemical warfare, 544–545

  deference to in Berlin, 521

  influence of Napoleon on, 186, 417

  institutionalising of, 543–544

  military and naval personnel of the powers, 420

  Pietist influence on, 48

  Prussian, 417–418

  religion and, 683

  warship tonnage, 420

  during World War I, 902n44

  during World War II, 698

  Military Society, 185

  Miller, Martin, 746

  Milliband, Ralph, 746

  Mind (journal), 755

  Minima Moralia (Adorno), 726

  mining, 117, 167–168

  Mirat, Crescence-Eugénie (Mathilde), 300–301

  Mises, Ludwig von, 727

  Mitscherlich, Alexander and Margarete, 24, 785, 789–790

  Mitscherlich, Eilhardt, 234, 275

  Mitterrand, François, 15, 17

  Möbius, August Ferdinand, 174

  Modern Capitalism (Der moderne Kapitalismus) (Sombart), 452, 453

  modernism

  antimodernism of Lagarde, 435

  as Jewish modernism in Vienna, 501

  reactionary modernism, 454

  modernity

  anti-modernity in German universities in the 1920s, 767

  hatred of, 432–437

  Philosophy of Money as first sociological analysis of, 448

  skepticism about, 848

  Weber, Max, on, 825–826

  Modern Man in Search of a Soul (Jung), 612

  Moeller van den Bruck, Arthur, 616–618, 771, 840, 859n45

  Moholy-Nagy, László, 571, 701, 741

  Moleschott, Jacob, 427

  Moltke, Gebhardt von, 2

  Moltke, Helmuth von, the elder, 188, 418, 519

  Mommsen, Hans, 404, 445

  Mommsen, Theodor, 231, 404–405, 408, 433

  Mommsen, Wolfgang, 404, 762

  Monge, Gaspard, 353

  Monte Carlo (film), 589

  Monthly Register, 314

  Monumenti antichi inediti (Unpublished Relics of Antiquity) (Winckelmann), 97

  Moore, Marianne, 296

  morality, 68, 142, 442

  Morell, Theo, 672

  Morgenstern, Oskar, 727, 918n89

  Morgue (Benn), 710

  Mörike, Eduard, 305

  Morocco (film), 593

  Morris, Charles, 729

  Morris, William, 571

  Moser, Claus, 745, 746, 752

  Moses, A. Dirk, 23–24, 36, 785, 843

  Mosse, George L., 614, 615

  Mötke, Eduard, 463

  Moynahan, Bryan, 686

  Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 59, 155, 157–158

  Mühlfeld, Richard, 462

  Mühsam, Erich, 504

  Müller, Heiner, 803

  Müller, Jan-Werner, 779, 832, 842

  Müller, Johannes, 234, 283, 383

  Müller, Max, 318

  Müller, Wilhelm, 305

  Müller’s Archiv (journal), 284

  Munch, Edvard, 527, 812

  Münchhausen, Gerlach Adolf von, 50–51

  Mundt, Theodor, 303

  Munich, 503–518

  art and artists

  Art Academy, 515

  Artists Association, 504–505

  Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, 770

  House of German Art (Haus der deutschen Kunst), 632

  Neue Künstlervereiningung München (New Artists’ Association) (NKVM), 516, 517

  Royal Academy of Fine Arts, 504

  German industrial exhibition of 1854, 504

  Ludwigskirche, 219

  Municipal Archaeological Institute, 632

  museums

  Glyptothek, 219

  Neue Pinakothek, 504

  Olympic Games Complex, 814

  reconstruction after World War II, 757

  Schwabing, 504

  Munich Putsch of 1923, 614

  Munich Sezession, 503–504, 505, 509

  Münter, Gabriele, 516, 517

  Murders Are Among Us, The (film), 805

  Murnau, F. W., 587

  Murrow, Edward R., 664

  Museum of Modern Art (New York), 733, 760

  music, 58–59, 153–165, 459–473. See also opera

  after World War II, 809–810

  atonality, 471, 584

  baroque, 43

  composers inspired by Schiller, 133

  conductor as dominant force, 160, 308

  contemporary, 844

  development of full orchestral scores, 155

  German influence in the United States, 325

  innovation in, 59

  inwardness and, 831

  Italian Renaissance and, 93–94

  Jewish musicians, 641

  Mannheim school of 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

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nbsp; 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

 

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