The Dynastic Imagination: Family and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Germany

by Adrian Daub

Book Overview

Adrian Daub's The Dynastic Imagination offers an unexpected account of modern German intellectual history through frameworks of family and kinship. Modernity aimed to brush off dynastic, hierarchical authority and to make society anew through the mechanisms of marriage, siblinghood, and love. It was, in other words, centered on the nuclear family. But as Daub shows, the dynastic imagination persisted, in time emerging as a critical stance by...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022673773X
• ISBN13: 9780226737737
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"