German Genius

<em>The German Genius</em> is a virtuoso cultural history of German ideas and influence from 1750 to the present day by acclaimed historian Peter Watson (<em>Making of the Modern Mind Ideas</em>). From Bach Goethe and Schopenhauer to Nietzsche Freud and Einstein from the arts and humanities to science and philosophy <em>The German Genius</em> is a lively and accessible review of over 250 years of German intellectual history. In the process it explains the devastating effects of World War II which transformed a vibrant and brilliantly artistic culture into a vehicle of warfare and destruction and it shows how the German culture advanced in the war's aftermath.