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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777506803321

Autore

Bontempelli Pier Carlo

Titolo

Knowledge, power, and discipline : German studies and national identity / / Pier Carlo Bontempelli ; translated by Gabriele Poole

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2004

©2004

ISBN

0-8166-9458-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxxii, 258 pages)

Collana

Contradictions ; ; v. 19

Disciplina

943/.007/2

Soggetti

National characteristics, German

Germany Civilization Study and teaching Italy History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-246) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The metamorphoses of domination and the subject of German studies -- The origins of modern German studies -- Under the aegis of Goethe : liberal historiography from Gervinus to Dilthey -- The science of literature and the steam engine : Wilhelm Scherer and the positivist school -- Wilhelm Dilthey and Geistesgeschichte -- German studies in the years of National Socialism -- The break in political continuity and the continuity of the disciplinary apparatus, 1945-1968 -- The dialectics of rebellion : 1968 and its consequences -- After 1968 : transforming the canon, shifting the paradigms -- Beyond the year 2000 : German studies between new approaches and the resurgence of philology.

Sommario/riassunto

German Studies has confronted many crises, and yet it has managed to maintain its disciplinary system. Using the works of Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu, Bontempelli investigates the principles of German Studies and critically reconstructs its history. Mindful of choice and domination operating at every turn, his book exposes the repressed social and political history of German Studies.