Spirit and System: Media, Intellectuals, and the Dialectic in Modern German Culture - Brossura

Boyer, Dominic

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ISBN 10: 0226068919 ISBN 13: 9780226068916

Casa editrice: University of Chicago Press, 2005

Riassunto

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 "German-ness" 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 "German-ness"—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 it tracks their fluctuation between alienation and utopianism in their interpretations of nation and modernity.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Dominic Boyer is assistant professor of anthropology at Cornell University.

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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.
 

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: University of Chicago Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0226068919
• ISBN 13: 9780226068916
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 334
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile