The Politics of Sociability : Freemasonry and German Civil Society, 1840-1918 /

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"The Politics of Sociability is Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann's exploration of the social and political significance of Freemasonry in German history. Drawing on de Tocqueville's theory that without civic virtue there is no civil society, and that civic virtue unfolds only through the social...

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Main Author: Hoffmann, Stefan-Ludwig (Author)
Other Authors: Lampert, Tom, 1962- (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Alemán
Published: Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2007]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Freemasonry > Political aspects.
Freemasonry > Lodges.
HISTORY / General
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
Franc-maçonnerie > Aspect politique > Allemagne > Histoire.
Franc-maçonnerie > Aspect social > Allemagne > Histoire.
Franc-maçonnerie > Allemagne > Loges > Histoire.
Freemasonry > Political aspects > Germany > History.
Freemasonry > Social aspects > Germany > History.
Freemasonry > Germany > Lodges > History.
Germany.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Secrecy and enlightenment
  • The society of "civil" citizens, 1840-70
  • Civic worlds, civic politics, 1871-1918
  • Civic virtue and sociability
  • Rites of masculinity
  • The mystery of Bildung
  • The individual, the nation, and mankind
  • The fatherland of man
  • Epilogue : the war of world citizens.

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