Spirit And System by Dominic Boyer
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.| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781017786439 |
| ISBN 10 | 1017786437 |
| Title | Spirit And System |
| Author | Dominic Boyer |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Publisher | Legare Street Press |
| Year published | 2022-10-27 |
| Number of pages | 80 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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