Main entry:

Toews, John Edward.

Title & Author:

Becoming historical : cultural reformation and public memory in early nineteenth-century Berlin / John Edward Toews.

Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Description:

xxiv, 466 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
"Draws together the intellectual, cultural and political history of Prussia in the decades before 1848"--Dust jacket.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Philosophical prologue: historical ontology and cultural reformation: Schelling in Berlin, 1841-1845 -- Historicism in power: 1840 and the historical turn in Prussian cultural politics -- Architectural and musical historicism: aesthetic education and cultural reformation -- Law, language, and history: cultural identity and the self-constituting subject in the historical school -- Antiphilosophical epilogue: Historicizing identity in Kierkegaard and Marx, 1841-1846.
Includes section on Karl Friedrich Schinkel.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"The historical consciousness that emerged from the revolutionary break with tradition at the turn of the nineteenth century shaped the development of new forms of personal and collective identity. This book examines the stages and conflicts in this process of "becoming historical" through the works of prominent Prussian artists and intellectuals (Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Felix Mendelssohn, Jacob Grimm, Friedrich Karl von Savigny, Leopold von Ranke) who attached their personal visions to the reformist agenda of the Prussian regime that took power in 1840"--Jacket.

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ISBN:

0521836484
9780521836487
9780521062985
0521062985

Subject:

Schinkel, Karl Friedrich, 1781-1841.
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1847.
Grimm, Jacob, 1785-1863.
Savigny, Friedrich Karl von, 1779-1861.
Ranke, Leopold von, 1795-1886.
Historiography Germany Berlin History 19th century.
Historicism.
Historiographie Allemagne Berlin Histoire 19e siècle.
Historicisme.
historicism (theory)
02.01 history of science and culture.
Historiography
Intellectual life
Geschichtsbewusstsein
Geschichtsschreibung
Gruppenidentität
Historismus
Kultur
Kulturpolitik
Nationalbewusstsein
Reformpolitik
Historisch besef.
Geschiedschrijving.
Berlin (Germany) Intellectual life 19th century.
Berlin (Allemagne) Vie intellectuelle 19e siècle.
Germany Berlin
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Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 241988
Call No.: DD86 .T64 2004
Status: Available