The Dynastic Imagination: Family and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Germany

by Adrian Daub

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Adrian Daub's The Dynastic Imagination offers an unexpected account of modern German intellectual history through frameworks of family and kinship. Modernity aimed to brush off dynastic, hierarchical authority and to make society anew through the mechanisms of marriage, siblinghood, and love. It was, in other words, centered on the nuclear family. But as Daub shows, the dynastic imagination persisted, in time emerging as a critical stance by...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:022673773X

ISBN13:9780226737737

Release Date:January 2021

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:256 Pages

Weight:1.14 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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