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Intellectuals and the Nation : Collective Identity in a German Axial Age (Cambridge Cultural Social Studies)
Intellectuals and the Nation Collective Identity in a German Axial Age - Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
Author: Bernhard Giesen
This book proposes a theory of collective and national identity based on culture and language rather than power and politics. Applying this to what he calls Germany's "axial age," Bernhard Giesen shows how the codes of nineteenth-century German identity in turn became those of the divided Germany between 1945 and 1989. The identity he describes ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521639965
ISBN-10: 0521639964
Publication Date: 8/28/1998
Pages: 256
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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