Zeitgeist - how ideas travel : politics, culture, and the public in the age of revolution /

This book investigates the emergence of the modern concept of zeitgeist--the notion of a pervasive contemporary coherence. It proposes that zeitgeist, as it was discussed by contemporaries of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars in Germany and Britain, contributed to the formation of modern...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Oergel, Maike, 1964- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : De Gruyter, [2019]
Colección:Culture & conflict ; Bd. 13.
Temas:
Political science.
Culture.
Public opinion.
Public Opinion
Opinion publique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Geistesleben
Gemeinsinn
Kulturvermittlung
Öffentliche Meinung
Zeitgeist
Deutschland
Europa
Großbritannien
Zeitgeist.
cultural transfer.
intellectual networks, 18th/19th century.
public opinion.
public spirit.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Johann Gottfried Herder
  • the "Inventor of Zeitgeist"?
  • 2. The Making of Zeitgeist
  • Culture and Public Spirit between Enfranchisement and Control
  • 3. The Public and Zeitgeist
  • Public Spirit and Public Opinion 1790-1800
  • 4. Zeitgeist in Germany
  • Public Opinion, History, and the People in Franz Josias von Hendrich, Ernst Brandes, and Ernst Moritz Arndt
  • 5. Zeitgeist in Britain
  • The Spirit of the Age and Social Reform in Julius Hare, William Hazlitt, Thomas Carlyle, and J.S. Mill
  • 6. How Ideas Travel (in Theory): The Zeitgeist Dynamic
  • 7. How an Idea Travels (in Practice)
  • A Case Study: The Germanic and the Gothic
  • The Life and Times of the "Northern" Identity of Liberty and Duty in Germany and Britain 1770-1870
  • Works Cited
  • Index.

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