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German Cosmopolitan Social Thought and the Idea of the West - Voices from Weimar (Hardcover)
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German Cosmopolitan Social Thought and the Idea of the West - Voices from Weimar (Hardcover)
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There has been considerable interest in recent years in German
social thinkers of the Weimar era. Generally, this has focused on
reactionary and nationalist figures such as Schmitt and Heidegger.
In this book, Austin Harrington offers a broader account of the
German intellectual legacy of the period. He explores the ideas of
a circle of left-liberal cosmopolitan thinkers (Troeltsch, Scheler,
Toennies, Max Weber, Alfred Weber, Mannheim, Jaspers, Curtius, and
Simmel) who responded to Germany's crisis by rejecting the popular
appeal of nationalism. Instead, they promoted pan-European
reconciliation based on notions of a shared European heritage
between East and West. Harrington examines their concepts of
nationhood, religion, and 'civilization' in the context of their
time and in their bearing on subsequent debates about European
identity and the place of the modern West in global social change.
The result is a groundbreaking contribution to current questions in
social, cultural and historical theory.
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