Speculations on German History - Culture and the State

Provocative and spiced with humor, this book uses a cultural studies approach to examine the fraught relationship in German history between material reality and ideology.

List of contents

Introduction
The Problem(s)
A Plethora of Germanies
Culture, Language, and Blood
The Gemeinschaft
Marx, the Proletariat, and the State
Hegel and the State
German Historians and the State
Meinecke and the State
The Lingering Ambiguities of the State
Materialism
Militarism and Death
Providence and Narration
Guilt and Innocence
The Indispensable Jews
The Historians' Debate
The State Today
Notes
Index

About the author

Barry Emslie

Product details

• Authors: Barry Emslie
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.04.2015
• EAN: 9781571139290
• ISBN: 978-1-57113-929-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 164 mm x 242 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 534 g
• Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture; Studies in German Literature,; Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture; Studies in German Literature L
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Deutschland, HISTORY / Europe / Germany, Westeuropa, HISTORY / Modern / General, HISTORY / Europe / Western, History - General History