Spirit and System: Media, Intellectuals, and the Dialectic in Modern German Culture

by Dominic Boyer

Book Overview

Combining ethnography, history, and social theory, Dominic Boyer's Spirit and System exposes how the shifting fortunes and social perceptions of German intellectuals in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries influenced Germans' conceptions of modernity and national culture.

Boyer analyzes the creation and mediation of the social knowledge of "German-ness" from nineteenth-century university culture and its philosophies of history, to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226068900
• ISBN13: 9780226068909
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.3"