Intellectuals and the nation: collective identity in a german axial age
Auteur :
Giesen, Bernhard
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9780521639965
Date de publication :
6 août 1998
Dimensions :
22,6 x 15,5 x 1,4 cm
Poids :
350 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
This book proposes a theory of collective and national identity based on culture and language rather than power and politics. A study also of Germany before 1871, it shows how the codes of nineteenth-century German identity in turn became those of the divided Germany between 1945 and 1989.