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050 00 $aDD97$b.E47 2015
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100 1 $aEmslie, Barry,$eauthor.
245 10 $aSpeculations on German history :$bculture and the state /$cBarry Emslie.
264 1 $aRochester, New York :$bCamden House,$c[2015]
264 4 $c©2015
300 $a247 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aStudies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
520 2 $a"German history never loses its fascination. It is exceptionally varied, contradictory, and raises difficult problems for the historian. In a material sense, there have been a great many Germanies, so that it was long unclear what 'Germany' would amount to geopolitically, while German intellectuals fought constantly over the idea(s) of Germany. Provocative and spiced with humor, Speculations tackles Germany's successes and catastrophes in view of this fraught relationship between material reality and ideology. Concentrating on the period from Friedrich the Great until today, the book is less a conventional history than an extended essay. It moves freely within the chosen period, and because of its cultural studies disposition, devotes a great deal of attention to German writers, artists, and intellectuals. It looks at the ways in which German historians have attempted to come to terms with their own varying notions of nation, culture, and race. An underlying philosophical assumption is that history is not one dominant narrative but a struggle between competing, simultaneous narratives: like all those Germanies of the past and of the mind, history is plural. Barry Emslie pursues this agenda into the present, arguing that there has been an unprecedented qualitative change in the Federal Republic in the quarter-century since unification."--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aThe problem(s) -- A plethora of Germanies -- Culture, language, and blood -- The Gemeinschaft -- Marx, the proletariat, and the state -- Hegel and the state -- German historians and the state -- Meinecke and the state -- The lingering ambiguities of the state -- Materialism -- Militarism and death -- Providence and narration -- Guilt and innocence -- The indispensable Jews -- The historians' debate -- The state today.
651 0 $aGermany$xHistory$xPhilosophy.
651 0 $aGermany$xHistory.
651 0 $aGermany$xIntellectual life.
651 0 $aGermany$xHistoriography.
650 0 $aHistorians$zGermany.
650 7 $aHistorians.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00957686
650 7 $aHistoriography.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00958221
650 7 $aIntellectual life.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00975769
650 7 $aPhilosophy.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01060777
651 7 $aGermany.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01210272
650 7 $aStaat.$0(DE-588)4056618-3$2gnd
651 7 $aDeutschland.$0(DE-588)4011882-4$2gnd
655 7 $aHistory.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411628
830 0 $aStudies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
852 00 $bglx$hDD97$i.E47 2015