Knowledge, power, and discipline : German studies and national identity / Pier Carlo Bontempelli ; translated by Gabriele Poole.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bontempelli, Pier Carlo.

Series:

Contradictions (Minneapolis, Minn.) ; 19.

Contradictions ; v. 19

Standardized Title:

Storia della germanistica. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National characteristics, German.

Germany--Civilization--Study and teaching--Italy--History.

Germany.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxii, 258 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

German Studies has confronted many crises, and yet it has managed to maintain its disciplinary system. Using the works of Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu, Bontempelli investigates the principles of German Studies and critically reconstructs its history. Mindful of choice and domination operating at every turn, his book exposes the repressed social and political history of German Studies.

Contents:

The metamorphoses of domination and the subject of German studies

The origins of modern German studies

Under the aegis of Goethe : liberal historiography from Gervinus to Dilthey

The science of literature and the steam engine : Wilhelm Scherer and the positivist school

Wilhelm Dilthey and Geistesgeschichte

German studies in the years of National Socialism

The break in political continuity and the continuity of the disciplinary apparatus, 1945-1968

The dialectics of rebellion : 1968 and its consequences

After 1968 : transforming the canon, shifting the paradigms

Beyond the year 2000 : German studies between new approaches and the resurgence of philology.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-246) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-9458-3

OCLC:

191952826