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 identity that emerged in the Enlightenment and continued through the nineteenth century and into the twentieth." "Mah's book examines how attempts to define cultural identities were caught up in issues of language, gender, classical revival, politics, and modernity. Enlightenment Phantasies presents the shaping of cultural identity in narratives accessible not only to specialists but also to students and all readers concerned with the history of Western culture."--Jacket
1 online resource (x, 227 pages) : illustrations
9781501728402, 9780801488955, 1501728407, 0801488958
607002714
Introduction - identity as phantasy in Enlightenment France and Germany; the man with too many qualities - the young Herder between France and Germany; the language of cultural identity - Diderot to Nietzsche; strange classicism - aesthetic vision in Winckelmann, Nietzsche, and Thomas Mann; classicism and gender transformation - David, Goethe and Stael; the French Revolution and the problem of time - Hegel to Marx.
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010