Proposes a theory of collective and national identity based on
culture and language rather than power and politics. In the text
the author applies this theory to what he calls Germany's axial age
and shows how the codes of 19th-century German identity in turn
became those of the divided Germany between 1945 and 1989. The
identity described in the text derives from the ideas of German
intellectuals, from the uprooted Romantic poets to the influential
German mandarins. Carried by the emerging bourgeoisie, it was
constructed on the tensions between power and spirit, money and
culture, and the sacred and profane. The book discusses how German
identity also took four distinct forms: the nation as the invisible
public of Enlightenment patriotism; the nation as the Romantics'
aesthetic holy grail; the Left Hegelian nation at the barricades of
democracy; and the nation as an extension of the Prussian state.
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