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Speculations on German History - Culture and the State (Hardcover)
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Speculations on German History - Culture and the State (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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Provocative and spiced with humor, this book uses a cultural
studies approach to examine the fraught relationship in German
history between material reality and ideology. 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
intellectuals fought constantly over the idea(s) of Germany.
Provocative and spiced with humor, Speculations tackles Germany's
successes and catastrophes in view of this fraught relationship
between material reality and ideology. Concentrating on the period
from Friedrich the Great until today, the book is less a
conventional history than an extended essay. It moves freely within
the chosenperiod, and because of its cultural studies disposition,
devotes a great deal of attention to German writers, artists, and
intellectuals. It looks at the ways in which German historians have
attempted to come to terms with theirown varying notions of nation,
culture, and race. An underlying philosophical assumption is that
history is not one dominant narrative but a struggle between
competing, simultaneous narratives: like all those Germanies of
thepast and of the mind, history is plural. Barry Emslie pursues
this agenda into the present, arguing that there has been an
unprecedented qualitative change in the Federal Republic in the
quarter-century since unification. Barry Emslie lives and teaches
in Berlin. He is the author of Richard Wagner and the Centrality of
Love (Boydell Press, 2010) and Narrative and Truth: An Ethical and
Dynamic Paradigm for the Humanities (PalgraveMacmillan, 2012).
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