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Spirit and System (Paperback, New edition)
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Spirit and System (Paperback, New edition)
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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.
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