Intellectuals and the German nation : collective identity in an axial age /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1998.
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| Series: | Cambridge cultural social studies.
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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.