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Intellectuals and the Nation: Collective Identity in a German Axial Age

Intellectuals and the Nation: Collective Identity in a German Axial Age

Giesen, Bernhard
Levis, Nicholas
Weisz, Amos

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Series: Cambridge Cultural Social Studies

General SociologyGerman History

ISBN10: 0521639964
ISBN13: 9780521639965
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Aug 6 1998
Pages: 258
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.11 Depth: 8.88
Language: English
This book proposes a theory of collective and national identity based on culture and language rather than power and politics. Applying this to what he calls Germany's axial age, Bernhard Giesen shows how the codes of nineteenth-century German identity in turn became those of the divided Germany between 1945 and 1989. The identity he describes derives from the ideas of German intellectuals, from the uprooted romantic poets to the influential German mandarins, and was borne by the newly emerging bourgeoisie.

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