First Thoughts:

• Peace & Order vs. Freedom and Exhilation
• Liberty, Liberation and License
• Catharsis
• ==>> cultural "golden age" ? Can this be true?

Review:

• The Deal
• Prominent Jews: Wertheim3; Wertheim interior. AEG factory .
• A Berlin psychiatrist --Dix

On Inflation and its effect on public and private morality in Berlin in the early 1920s

• A table of inflation; inflation; cartoon. another.
• the cost of bread ; building a new economy, and again.
• related costs.

Social criticism in the arts: a perspective from Grosz of Liebknechts Berlin; on the trade; on Gross: Grauer Tag: social criticism Note the wall that divides the German bureaucrat for assisting vets, and the vets themselves; and the black-marketeer in the background. the year 1923. Dix. the nazis considered this painting to be an 'insult to German womanhood!" More on vets; and another.

The myth of degeneracy;

• In the public culture of the period: cabaret; a variant (see the movie); nacht-lokal and party.The waltz . An amusing S with your friends.
• From ''Glitter and Doom" Portraits of Weimar Germany. "But the Weimar years also brought unprecedented social and artistic freedom, making Berlin the most culturally advanced, exciting city in Europe. Film, theater, literature, design and the visual arts thrived, merging with and stimulated by the circuit of cabarets, salons and nightclubs. Homosexuals were unafraid, as suggested by Dix’s portrait of the jeweler Karl Krall, wearing a tight corset beneath his suit, or Schad’s famous depiction of Count St. Genois d’Anneaucourt " Among the upper stratum . Dix and friend
• Liberation but degeneracy?? Pp126-7.
  • On women and their issues: Abtreibung...vordemTor
  • How much freedom will a society tolerate? closer to reality: working girls; at its worst. A fine family (and a comparison). in a working girls salon. Three friends of Dix. Car girls. Nichts neues.

What is the difference between liberty and license?

1. Liberty and license are the same thing.
2. Liberty recognizes consequences of actions; license does not.
3. Liberty has restrictions; license does not.

Good judgment results from ________________________ .

1. acting according to a moral code
2. good enforcement of the rules
3. making moral decisions according to one's convenience

How does rationale differ from reasoning?

1. Reasoning is a way of reaching a decision; rationale is the way of explaining the decision.
2. Reasoning and rationale are the same thing.
3. Rationale is a formal presentation of reasoning.

Classroom Exercise: Hmm...this is not an easy one. Chaos in the streets, secret deals being made, political assassinations, degeneracy. And yet many found Berlin to be liberating (ok, so far they have been psychiatrists, Russian emigrés and women, not exactly the most stable group, nevertheless...). How do you think Brucker and Thornton would interpret these characteristic features of Berlin life in the very early 1920s? Class Reporting Tool.