LEADER 00000cam 12200289M 4500 001 19337707 003 LIBRIS 003 LT 008 160302s2016 xxk 000 0 eng d 020 9781107110915 020 1107110912 041 0 eng 082 04 940.5 084 Ka.5|2kssb/8 (machine generated) 092 0 940.5|bengelska 100 1 Harrington, Austin,|d1970- 245 10 German cosmopolitan social thought and the idea of the West :|bVoices from Weimar /|cAustin Harrington 264 Cambridge :|bCambridge University Press|c2016 300 pages 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 520 8 There has been considerable interest in recent years in German social thinkers of the Weimar era. Generally, this has focused on reactionary and nationalist figures such as Schmitt and Heidegger. In this book, Austin Harrington offers a broader account of the German intellectual legacy of the period. He explores the ideas of a circle of left- liberal cosmopolitan thinkers (Troeltsch, Scheler, Tonnies, Max Weber, Alfred Weber, Mannheim, Jaspers, Curtius, and Simmel) who responded to Germany's crisis by rejecting the popular appeal of nationalism. Instead, they promoted pan- European reconciliation based on notions of a shared European heritage between East and West. Harrington examines their concepts of nationhood, religion, and 'civilization' in the context of their time and in their bearing on subsequent debates about European identity and the place of the modern West in global social change. The result is a groundbreaking contribution to current questions in social, cultural and historical theory 648 7 1900-talet|2sao 650 7 Intellektuella|xhistoria|2sao 650 7 Samhällsvetenskap|xhistoria|2sao 907 00 160615
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