Spirit and System (Paperback, New edition)

Combining ethnography, history, and social theory, Dominic Boyer's "Spirit and System" exposes how the shifting fortunes and social perceptions of German intellectuals in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries influenced Germans' conceptions of modernity and national culture.
Boyer analyzes the creation and mediation of the social knowledge of "Germanness" from nineteenth-century university culture and its philosophies of history, to the media systems and redemptive public cultures of the Third Reich and the German Democratic Republic, to the present-day experiences of former East German journalists seeking to explain life in post-unification Germany. Throughout this study, Boyer reveals how dialectical knowledge of "Germanness"--that is, knowledge that emphasizes a cultural tension between an inner "spirit" and an external "system" of social life--is modeled unconsciously upon intellectuals' self-knowledge as he tracks their fluctuation between alienation and utopianism in their interpretations of nation and modernity across two centuries.

General

Imprint:	University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2005
First published:	December 2005
Authors:	Dominic Boyer
Dimensions:	228 x 154 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	288
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-226-06891-6
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > General Books > History > European history > General Books > History > World history > From 1900 > General Promotions
LSN:	0-226-06891-9
Barcode:	9780226068916

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