Intellectuals and the Nation: Collective Identity in a German Axial Age - Couverture rigide

Giesen, Bernhard

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521621615 ISBN 13 : 9780521621618

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1998

Synopsis

This book proposes a cultural theory of national identity, and also studies nineteenth-century and post-war German identity formation.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This book proposes a theory of collective and national identity based on culture and language rather than power and politics. Applying this to what he calls Germany's 'axial age', Bernhard Giesen shows how the codes of nineteenth-century German identity in turn became those of the divided Germany between 1945 and 1989. The identity he describes derives from the ideas of German intellectuals, from the uprooted Romantic poets to the influential German mandarins. Carried by the emerging bourgeoisie, it was constructed on the tensions between power and spirit, money and culture, and the sacred and profane.

Revue de presse

"This impressive monograph by one of the most reowned German sociologists" Canadian Jrnl of His...The book is much more stimulating than this summary may suggest." Wolfgang E.J. Weber

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521621615
• ISBN 13: 9780521621618
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 258
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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