Lectures about Heaven
Thomas Laqueur: Forgiving Germany, 7 June 2007
Five Germanys I Have Known
by Fritz Stern.
Farrar, Straus, 560 pp., £11.25, July 2007,978 0 374 53086 0 Show More
by Fritz Stern.
Farrar, Straus, 560 pp., £11.25, July 2007,
“... far from what would in Britain be called ‘Victorian’. Not surprising, perhaps, given how much Thomas Carlyle took from German literature and philosophy; how important Goethe was for George Eliot; how much Matthew Arnold admired German education. It is also telling how compatible a veneration for Kultur was with the Victorian values of service and ... ”