Enlightenment Phantasies

by Harold Mah

Book Overview

For centuries the histories of France and Germany have been linked in ways 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 argues that the efforts of German and French intellectuals...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801441447
• ISBN13: 9780801441448
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher