Politics and the Sciences of Culture in Germany, 1840-1920

Politics and the Sciences of Culture in Germany, 1840-1920
Author :
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 309
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780195362275
ISBN-13 : 0195362276
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Politics and the Sciences of Culture in Germany, 1840-1920 by : Woodruff D. Smith

Download or read book Politics and the Sciences of Culture in Germany, 1840-1920 written by Woodruff D. Smith and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1991-06-20 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the ways in which politics and ideology stimulate and shape changes in human science, this book focuses on the cultural sciences in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Germany. The book argues that many of the most important theoretical directions in German cultural science had their origins in a process by which a general pattern of social scientific thinking, one that was closely connected to political liberalism and dominant in Germany (and elsewhere) before the mid-nineteenth century, fragmented in the face of the political troubles of German liberalism after that time. Some liberal social scientists who wanted to repair both liberalism and the liberal theoretical pattern, and others who wanted to replace them with something more conservative, turned to the concept of culture as the focus of their intellectual endeavors. Later generations of intellectuals repeated the process, motivated in large part by the experiences of liberalism as a political movement in the German Empire. Within this framework, the book discusses the formation of diffusionism in German anthropology, Friedrich Ratzel's theory of Lebensraum, folk psychology, historical economics, and cultural history. It also relates these developments to German imperialism, the rise of radical nationalism, and the upheaval in German social science at the turn of the century.


Politics and the Sciences of Culture in Germany, 1840-1920 Related Books

Politics and the Sciences of Culture in Germany, 1840-1920
Language: en
Pages: 309
Authors: Woodruff D. Smith
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991-06-20 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Examining the ways in which politics and ideology stimulate and shape changes in human science, this book focuses on the cultural sciences in nineteenth and ear
Politics and the Sciences of Culture in Germany, 1840-1920
Language: en
Pages: 309
Authors: Woodruff D. Smith
Categories: Germany
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This study traces the roots of German imperialist ideology by examining the German cultural sciences of the 19th century and theirrelationship to politics.
The Correspondence of Ezra Pound and the Frobenius Institute, 1930-1959
Language: en
Pages: 393
Authors: Ezra Pound
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-02-22 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Collecting in full for the first time the correspondence between Ezra Pound and members of Leo Frobenius' Forschungsinstitut für Kulturmorphologie in Frankfurt
The Uncertain Sciences
Language: en
Pages: 335
Authors: Bruce Mazlish
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-07-28 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This sweeping inquiry into the present condition of the human sciences addresses the central questions: What sort of knowledge do the human sciences claim to be
Criminals and their Scientists
Language: en
Pages: 510
Authors: Peter Becker
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-01-09 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book presents research on the history of criminology from the late-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century in Western Europe (Austria, Britain, France, Ger