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Speculations on German history : culture and the state /

"German history never loses its fascination. It is exceptionally varied, contradictory, and raises difficult problems for the historian. In a material sense, there have been a great many Germanies, so that it was long unclear what 'Germany' would amount to geopolitically, while German...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Emslie, Barry (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2015.
Series:Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture (Unnumbered)
Subjects:
Germany > History > Philosophy.
Germany > History.
Germany > Intellectual life.
Germany > Historiography.
Historians > Germany.
Historians.
Historiography.
Intellectual life.
Philosophy.
Germany.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • The problem(s)
  • A plethora of Germanies
  • Culture, language, and blood
  • The Gemeinschaft
  • Marx, the proletariat, and the state
  • Hegel and the state
  • German historians and the state
  • Meinecke and the state
  • The lingering ambiguities of the state
  • Materialism
  • Militarism and death
  • Providence and narration
  • Guilt and innocence
  • The indispensable Jews
  • The historians' debate
  • The state today.