Culture and identity : historicity in German literature and thought 1770-1815
Examines the impact of the awareness of historicity on the concepts of modernity, identity, and culture as they developed in German thought around 1800. This work shows how this awareness determined the German notion of the priority of cultural identity. It traces the modification of the Enlightenment concepts of perfectibility.
Criticism, interpretation, etc
viii, 300 pages ; 24 cm
9783110189339, 311018933X
70208059