Enlightenment phantasies : cultural identity in France and Germany, 1750-1914 /

"For centuries the histories of France and Germany have been linked in ways both productive and destructive, and each nation's sense of itself has often been shaped by admiration of or hostility toward the other. Harold Mah explores the interweaving paths of German and French cultural iden...

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Author / Creator: Mah, Harold.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2003.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: identity as phantasy in Enlightenment in France and Germany
  • Man with too many qualities : the young Herder between France and Germany
  • Language of cultural identity : Diderot to Nietzsche
  • Strange classicism : aesthetic vision in Winckelmann, Nietzsche, and Thomas Mann
  • Classicism and gender transformation : David, Goethe, and Staël
  • French Revolution and the problem of time : Hegel to Marx.