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1 online resource (viii, 300 pages) |
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Introduction : historicity, modernity and the Germans : the historical dialectic and new concepts of culture, consciousness and identity -- Ch. 1. Historicity and the definition of modern culture : the German Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes and the new concepts of literature -- Ch. 2. The historicity of modern knowledge and consciousness : German idealism -- Ch. 3. Historicity, modernity and German identity : Stammvolk Europas and modern Kulturnation -- Ch. 4. Grasping the historical dialectic of the modern German existence : Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre -- Ch. 5. Historicity as identity : the German myth of modernity in Goethe's Faust I -- Conclusion : the new universality and the Germanic Kulturnation |
| Summary |
Examines the impact of the awareness of historicity on the concepts of modernity, identity, and culture as they developed in German thought around 1800. This work shows how this awareness determined the German notion of the priority of cultural identity. It traces the modification of the Enlightenment concepts of perfectibility |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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German literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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German literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Literature and history -- Germany
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Collective memory -- Germany -- History -- 18th century
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Collective memory -- Germany -- History -- 19th century
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German.
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Civilization
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Collective memory
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German literature
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Literature and history
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Germany -- Civilization -- 18th century
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Germany -- Civilization -- 19th century
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Germany
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783110199970 |
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3110199971 |
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