2 Quotes & Sayings By Fritz Stern

Fritz Stern is University Professor of History and International Affairs at Columbia University, where he holds the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Chair in History of International Affairs. He is the author of The Politics of Cultural Despair: A Study in the Rise of the Germanic Ideology, 1933-1945 (in which he argues that the ideology of the Third Reich was based on a comprehensive pessimism—the belief that life's problems are intractable and that human beings are powerless to improve their lot) Read more

He is also the author of The Failure of Illiberal Politics: Essays on the Political Culture of Modern Germany.