Politics and the sciences of culture in Germany, 1840-1920 / Woodruff D. Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Woodruff D., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Politics and culture--Germany--History--19th century.

Politics and culture.

Learning and scholarship--Germany--History--20th century.

Learning and scholarship.

Germany--Intellectual life--19th century.

Germany.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 298 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This study traces the roots of German imperialist ideology by examining the German cultural sciences of the 19th century and their relationship to politics.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; 1 The Liberal Theoretical Pattern in Nineteenth-Century German Social Science; 2 The Crisis of Liberalism and the Emergence of Cultural Science, 1848-1862; 3 The Contexts of Cultural Science; 4 The Crisis of Liberalism and the Emergence of Cultural Science, 1862-1885; 5 Berlin Ethnology as Neoliberal Cultural Science; 6 Völkerpsychologie; 7 Bauer, Volk, and Kultur: The Peasant as the Foundation of Culture; 8 The Diffusionist Revolt; 9 Exploration, Imperialism, and Anthropology; 10 Historical Economics and Cultural History

11 Intellectual Politics and Cultural Science in the Wilhelmian Era 12 Lebensraum-Theory and Politics in Human Geography; 13 Cultural Science and Politics; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Bibliography: p279-291. - Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 1991.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-291) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-771540-0

1-280-52514-2

0-19-536227-6

OCLC:

476011004