Spirit and System: Media, Intellectuals, and the Dialectic in Modern German Culture
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Combining ethnography, history, and social theory, Dominic Boyer's Spirit and System exposes how the shifting fortunes and social perceptions of German intellectuals in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries influenced Germans' conceptions of modernity and national culture. Boyer analyzes the creation and mediation of the social knowledge of "German-ness" from nineteenth-century university culture and its philosophies of history, to...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0226068919
ISBN13:9780226068916
Release Date:December 2005
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:288 Pages
Weight:1.05 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"
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Anthropology Cultural Europe Germany History Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social SciencesCustomer Reviews
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