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" Speculations on German history : "
Barry Emslie
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BL
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645318
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Emslie, Barry
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Speculations on German history : : culture and the state /\ Barry Emslie
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Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
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247 pages ;; 24 cm
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9781571139290 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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: 157113929X (hardcover : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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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
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"German history never loses its fascination. It is exceptionally varied, contradictory, and raises difficult problems for the historian. In a material sense, there have been a great many Germanies, so that it was long unclear what 'Germany' would amount to geopolitically, while German intellectuals fought constantly over the idea(s) of Germany. Provocative and spiced with humor, Speculations tackles Germany's successes and catastrophes in view of this fraught relationship between material reality and ideology. Concentrating on the period from Friedrich the Great until today, the book is less a conventional history than an extended essay. It moves freely within the chosen period, and because of its cultural studies disposition, devotes a great deal of attention to German writers, artists, and intellectuals. It looks at the ways in which German historians have attempted to come to terms with their own varying notions of nation, culture, and race. An underlying philosophical assumption is that history is not one dominant narrative but a struggle between competing, simultaneous narratives: like all those Germanies of the past and of the mind, history is plural. Barry Emslie pursues this agenda into the present, arguing that there has been an unprecedented qualitative change in the Federal Republic in the quarter-century since unification." --
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Historians-- Germany
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Germany, History, Philosophy
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Germany, History
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Germany, Intellectual life
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Germany, Historiography
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943.0072
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DD97.E47 2015
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