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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785095603321

Autore

Smith Woodruff D

Titolo

Politics and the sciences of culture in Germany, 1840-1920 / / Woodruff D. Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 1991

ISBN

0-19-771540-0

1-280-52514-2

0-19-536227-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 298 pages)

Disciplina

001.1/0943/09034

Soggetti

Politics and culture - Germany - History - 19th century

Learning and scholarship - Germany - History - 20th century

Germany Intellectual life 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-291) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; 1 The Liberal Theoretical Pattern in Nineteenth-Century German Social Science; 2 The Crisis of Liberalism and the Emergence of Cultural Science, 1848-1862; 3 The Contexts of Cultural Science; 4 The Crisis of Liberalism and the Emergence of Cultural Science, 1862-1885; 5 Berlin Ethnology as Neoliberal Cultural Science; 6 Völkerpsychologie; 7 Bauer, Volk, and Kultur: The Peasant as the Foundation of Culture; 8 The Diffusionist Revolt; 9 Exploration, Imperialism, and Anthropology; 10 Historical Economics and Cultural History

11 Intellectual Politics and Cultural Science in the Wilhelmian Era 12 Lebensraum-Theory and Politics in Human Geography; 13 Cultural Science and Politics; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This study traces the roots of German imperialist ideology by examining the German cultural sciences of the 19th century and their relationship to politics.