Weimar Culture Now: “Americanism” and Post/Modernity

Abstract

Indeed: Americanism is a new European method. How much this method is influenced by America itself seems to me very unimportant. It is a concrete and energetic method, completely oriented toward intellectual and material reality. Also conforming to it is the new (Americanized) appearance of the European: beardless with a sharp profile, a goal-oriented gaze, a narrow, steeled body; and the new type of woman (which is still not well understood even from a sexological perspective): boyish, linear, dominated by lively movement, by her gait, by her legs.