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Resisting Pluralization and Globalization in German Culture, 1490-1540 - Visions of a Nation in Decline (Hardcover)
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Resisting Pluralization and Globalization in German Culture, 1490-1540 - Visions of a Nation in Decline (Hardcover)
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A critical reading of both literary and non-literary German texts
published between 1490 and 1540 exposes a populist backlash against
perceived social and political disruptions, the dramatic expansion
of spatial and epistemological horizons, and the growth of global
trade networks. These texts opposed the twin phenomena of
pluralization and secularization, which promoted a Humanist
tolerance for ambiguity, boosted globalization and spatial
expansion around 1500, and promoted new ways of imagining the
world. Part I considers threats to the political order and the
protestations against them, above all a vigorous defense of the
common good. Part II traces the intellectual and epistemological
upheaval triggered by the spatial discoveries and the new methods
of visual and verbal representation of space. Part III examines the
nationalistic backlash triggered by the rising global trade and
related abusive trading practices and by perceived undue foreign
influences. It is the basic premise of this book that the texts
examined here protested the observed disruptions of the status quo
and sought to reestablish a stable imperial order in the face of
political and social upheaval and of the felt cultural decline of
the German nation.
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