Spirit and System: Media, Intellectuals, and the Dialectic in Modern German Culture - Tapa blanda

Boyer, Dominic

 
9780226068916: Spirit and System: Media, Intellectuals, and the Dialectic in Modern German Culture
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ISBN 10: 0226068919 ISBN 13: 9780226068916
Editorial: University of Chicago Press, 2005

Sinopsis

Combining ethnography, history, and social theory, Dominic Boyer's Spirit and System exposes how the shifting fortunes and social perceptions of German intellectuals in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries influenced Germans' conceptions of modernity and national culture.

Boyer analyzes the creation and mediation of the social knowledge of "German-ness" from nineteenth-century university culture and its philosophies of history, to the media systems and redemptive public cultures of the Third Reich and the German Democratic Republic, to the present-day experiences of former East German journalists seeking to explain life in post-unification Germany. Throughout this study, Boyer reveals how dialectical knowledge of "German-ness"—that is, knowledge that emphasizes a cultural tension between an inner "spirit" and an external "system" of social life —is modeled unconsciously upon intellectuals' self-knowledge as it tracks their fluctuation between alienation and utopianism in their interpretations of nation and modernity.

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Dominic Boyer is assistant professor of anthropology at Cornell University.

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Combining ethnography, history, and social theory, Dominic Boyer's Spirit and System exposes how the shifting fortunes and social perceptions of German intellectuals in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries influenced Germans' conceptions of modernity and national culture.

Boyer analyzes the creation and mediation of the social knowledge of "Germanness" from nineteenth-century university culture and its philosophies of history, to the media systems and redemptive public cultures of the Third Reich and the German Democratic Republic, to the present-day experiences of former East German journalists seeking to explain life in post-unification Germany. Throughout this study, Boyer reveals how dialectical knowledge of "Germanness"--that is, knowledge that emphasizes a cultural tension between an inner "spirit" and an external "system" of social life--is modeled unconsciously upon intellectuals' self-knowledge as he tracks their fluctuation between alienation and utopianism in their interpretations of nation and modernity across two centuries.

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Combining ethnography, history, and social theory, Dominic Boyer&;s Spirit and System exposes how the shifting fortunes and social perceptions of German intellectuals in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries influenced Germans&; conceptions of modernity and national culture.

Boyer analyzes the creation and mediation of the social knowledge of &;Germanness&; from nineteenth-century university culture and its philosophies of history, to the media systems and redemptive public cultures of the Third Reich and the German Democratic Republic, to the present-day experiences of former East German journalists seeking to explain life in post-unification Germany. Throughout this study, Boyer reveals how dialectical knowledge of &;Germanness&;&;that is, knowledge that emphasizes a cultural tension between an inner &;spirit&; and an external &;system&; of social life&;is modeled unconsciously upon intellectuals&; self-knowledge as he tracks their fluctuation between alienation and utopianism in their interpretations of nation and modernity across two centuries.
 

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Editorial
University of Chicago Press
Año de publicación
2005
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0226068919
ISBN 13 
9780226068916
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Número de páginas
334
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