Intellectuals and the German nation : collective identity in an axial age /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Giesen, Bernhard, 1948-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Series:Cambridge cultural social studies.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the nation in social science and history
  • The construction of collective identity: proposal for a new analysis
  • Prelude: the encounter with otherness
  • The nation as invisible public: the patriotic code
  • The nation as Holy Grail of the intellectuals: the transcendental code of Romanticism
  • The people on the barricades: the democratic code
  • The nation-state up to the founding of empire: the code of Realpolitik
  • The national identity of the Germans: attempt at a conclusion
  • Epilogue: German identity between 1945 and 1990.