Intellectuals and the Nation : Collective Identity in a German Axial Age
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
ISBN-10
0521621615
ISBN-13
9780521621618
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 6th, 1998
Print length
258 Pages
Weight
53 grams
Dimensions
22.90 x 15.20 x 1.90 cms
Product Classification:
19th century, c 1800 to c 189920th century, c 1900 to c 1999Cultural studiesCultural studies
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This book proposes a theory of collective and national identity based on culture and language rather than power and politics. A study also of Germany before 1871, it shows how the codes of nineteenth-century German identity in turn became those of the divided Germany between 1945 and 1989.
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.
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