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Speculations on German History (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
Barry Emslie
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Description for Speculations on German History (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
Hardcover. 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. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW; HBLX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 162 x 25. Weight in Grams: 530.
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. 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. ... Read more
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. 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. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Camden House
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Columbia, MD, United States
ISBN
9781571139290
SKU
V9781571139290
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Ref
99-15
Reviews for Speculations on German History (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
Engaging and provocative . . . . In this stimulating book, Emslie takes a refreshingly new approach to German history in the light of the fraught relationship between German culture and the German state, or idealism and materialism, or ideological constructs and material reality. . . . [T]he text is well written, 'approachable and lively' as it says on the ... Read more