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German cosmopolitan social thought and the idea of the West : voices from Weimar /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2016.
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| Colección: | Cambridge EBA Collection
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 439 pages .) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 388-424) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781316275658 1316275655 9781316458549 1316458547 9781316456620 1316456625 9781107527782 1107527783 1316456145 9781316456149 1316458067 9781316458068 1316455181 9781316455180 1316455661 9781316455661 1316452301 9781316452301 |