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1 online resource (x, 439 pages .) |
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Cambridge EBA Collection |
| Contents |
Introduction. German thought and the West -- Social theory and the relevance of Weimar -- 1. Social theory and the West. Rescuing German "protest at the West" -- Weimar idioms of social theory : reclaiming a radicalism of the political centre -- Theorizing twentieth-century European modernity -- Defending Weimar thought today : Europeanism or Eurocentrism? -- 2. Europa in Weimar. Weimar history after the Sonderweg thesis -- A German problem of culture and politics? -- German ideas of Europe in the 1920s -- After 1918 : Europe and the German experience of fragmented civilization -- 3. Weimar liberal social theorists. Geist and politics : Simmel, Scheler, Curtius, Jaspers -- The Republic affirmed : Alfred Weber, Tönnies, Troeltsch -- Value conflict and the quest for synthesis : Max Weber and his critics -- Heidelberg cosmopolitanism : Karl Mannheim and his peers -- Diagnosing European societies : the inter-war "crisis of culture" -- 4. European nations and the Great War. Simmel and the nation -- Scheler, Tönnies and the nation -- Troeltsch, Alfred Weber and the nation -- Ethics and the European nation-state : problems with Max Weber -- 5. A Romano-Germanic nexus. Troeltsch and European religious history -- Excursus : challenging Max Weber's Anglophilia -- Simmel and Europe -- Curtius, Theodor Buddeberg and Europe -- Weimar social thought between East and West -- 6. Universal history. Max Weber and universal history -- Troeltsch : Europe after historicism -- Worldviews, world religions, world history -- Universal history reframed -- 7. Humanism and Europe. Mannheim : Europe after the sociology of knowledge -- Curtius and Mannheim -- Mannheim, Heidegger, Jaspers : intellectuals, Germany and Europe -- 8. European nihilism? Nihilism -- Weimar -- 1933 : against demonic continuity -- "Charisma" -- Liberal theorists and the German public sphere, 1918-1933 -- Trahison d'un clerc, I : Carl Schmitt -- Trahison d'un clerc, II : Leo Strauss -- Mandarin mentality in German thought reconsidered -- 9. Protesting the West : yesterday and today. Social science "beyond methodological nationalism"? -- Globalization and philosophical-historical totality -- Spectres of the East -- "European union" -- Weimar and now |
| Summary |
There has been considerable interest in recent years in German social thinkers of the Weimar era. Generally, this has focused on reactionary and nationalist figures such as Schmitt and Heidegger. In this book, Austin Harrington offers a broader account of the German intellectual legacy of the period. He explores the ideas of a circle of left-liberal cosmopolitan thinkers (Troeltsch, Scheler, Tonnies, Max Weber, Alfred Weber, Mannheim, Jaspers, Curtius, and Simmel) who responded to Germany's crisis by rejecting the popular appeal of nationalism. Instead, they promoted pan-European reconciliation based on notions of a shared European heritage between East and West. Harrington examines their concepts of nationhood, religion, and 'civilization' in the context of their time and in their bearing on subsequent debates about European identity and the place of the modern West in global social change. The result is a groundbreaking contribution to current questions in social, cultural and historical theory |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 388-424) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Intellectuals -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
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Social sciences -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Germany.
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Intellectuals
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Social sciences
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Weimarer Republik
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Intellektueller
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Soziologie
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Germany
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Deutschland
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781316275658 |
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1316275655 |
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9781316458549 |
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1316458547 |
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9781316456620 |
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9781316455180 |
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9781316455661 |
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9781316452301 |
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