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Weimar Culture RevisitedFriends of Nature: The Culture of Working-Class Hiking

Weimar Culture Revisited: Friends of Nature: The Culture of Working-Class Hiking [For years, historians have tended to cast Social Democratic cultural efforts during the Weimar Republic as insufficiently progressive, too “bourgeois” in outlook and everyday practice, and therefore ineffective in building a solid ground of working-class support for Germany’s fledgling democracy. A general consensus has evolved, according to which the weaknesses of the moderate workers’ cultural movement contributed to the Social Democrats’ failure to hinder the Nazis’ accession to power.1 This chapter revisits socialist cultural mobilization in a less judgmental and less teleological way. My analysis avoids the common tendency among scholars of Weimar to begin with liberal democracy’s failure and work backward in a quest to uncover the causes of that failure. I focus here on one organization within the vast network of socialist cultural organizations, the Tourist Association “Friends of Nature” (Touristenverein “die Naturfreunde” TVNF).] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Weimar Culture RevisitedFriends of Nature: The Culture of Working-Class Hiking

Part of the Studies in European Culture and History Book Series
Editors: Williams, John Alexander
Williams, John A.
Weimar Culture Revisited — Oct 17, 2015
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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2011
ISBN
978-1-349-29215-8
Pages
199 –225
DOI
10.1057/9780230117259_10
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Abstract

[For years, historians have tended to cast Social Democratic cultural efforts during the Weimar Republic as insufficiently progressive, too “bourgeois” in outlook and everyday practice, and therefore ineffective in building a solid ground of working-class support for Germany’s fledgling democracy. A general consensus has evolved, according to which the weaknesses of the moderate workers’ cultural movement contributed to the Social Democrats’ failure to hinder the Nazis’ accession to power.1 This chapter revisits socialist cultural mobilization in a less judgmental and less teleological way. My analysis avoids the common tendency among scholars of Weimar to begin with liberal democracy’s failure and work backward in a quest to uncover the causes of that failure. I focus here on one organization within the vast network of socialist cultural organizations, the Tourist Association “Friends of Nature” (Touristenverein “die Naturfreunde” TVNF).]

Published: Oct 17, 2015

Keywords: Local Group; Industrial Worker; Rural Landscape; Youth Cultivation; Political Division

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