| Intellectuals and the Nation: Collective Identity in a German Axial Age Contributor(s): Giesen, Bernhard (Author), Levis, Nicholas (Translator), Weisz, Amos (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0521621615 ISBN-13: 9780521621618 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 1998 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - History | Europe - Germany |
| Dewey: 320.540 |
| LCCN: 97027897 |
| Series: Cambridge Cultural Social Studies (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.10 lbs) 258 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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, and was borne by the newly emerging bourgeoisie. |
