Description: The Mind of Germany. The Education of a Nation by Hans Kohn published by Harper & Row, New York, 1965. First Harper Torchbook Edition. First Thus. Softcover. This book is considered a classic text in political science. By studying and theorizing nationalism, Hans Kohn hoped to tame it. In this book, Kohn explains how the totalitarian terror that Germany first experienced herself after 1933, and then inflicted upon other peoples, alienated them from the West and moved them from tolerant cosmopolitanism to self-centered repressive nationalism. Kohn traced this evolution in the writings (ideas and ideology) of nineteenth and twentieth century Germany and Austria and focused on the ideas and men of Germany that fostered a repudiation of Western thought and Western practices in constitutional matters. Germany's greatest thinkers “of the early nineteenth century - Fichte, Hegel, and Marx - raised the nation, the state, and the economy to supreme concepts, regarded history with its conflicts as the unfolding of an ultimate and self-justifying reality, and distorted political processes to fit a semireligious utopianism. Under the influence of these and similar thinkers German thought after 1812 consciously deviated from the main lines of western development.” (Hans Kohn, The Mind of Germany pp. 10) Hans Kohn (1891-1971), the Prague-born founding father of Nationalism Studies, insisted as of the interwar years, that nationalism is not innate. Kohn, who moved to the United States in the 1930s, was a politically engaged scholar, whose theory of nationalism made a significant impact in shaping western debates during the Cold War. He was convinced that the fate of humankind depended on the younger generation finding inspiration and social solidarity in a return to the principles of individual freedom. Contents: PREFACE Chapter One THE COURSE OF MODERN GERMAN HISTORY THE LEGACY OF THE MIDDLE AGES THE TRAGIC CHARACTER OF GERMAN HISTORY NATIONAL SOCIALISM AND GERMAN HISTORY FAREWELL TO LIBERALISM THE LONGING FOR THE "HIDDEN SAVIOUR" THE GERMANY OF TODAY & TOMORROW Chapter Two GOETHE AND HIS TIME THE INHERITANCE OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT GOETHE & SCHILLER IPHIGENIA'S MESSAGE GOETHE & NAPOLEON GOETHE, THE NATION & THE WORLD GOETHE & THE NINETEENTH CENTURY Chapter Three ROMANTICISM & THE GERMAN MIND NOVALIS AND THE SCHLEGELS THE ROMANTICS AND THE MIDDLE AGES THE CAREER OF FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL THE ROMANTICS AND THE STATE Chapter Four FATHER JAHN AND THE WAR AGAINST THE WEST ON THE EVE OF GERMAN NATIONALISM GERMAN NATIONALISM: ARNDT FATHER JAHN DIE TURNERSCHAFT DIE BURSCHENSCHAFT JAHN'S CONCEPT OF VOLKSTUM JAHN'S LAST YEARS THE WAR AGAINST THE WEST Chapter Five HEINRICH HEINE - POET & PATRIOT HEINE, THE RHINELANDER HEINE, GERMAN AND JEW HEINE, POET OF YOUNG GERMANY HEINE AND THE REVOLUTION HEINE, THE PATRIOT HEINE AND FRANCE HEINE, GERMANY AND THE WORLD Chapter Six THE WITHERING OF LIBERALISM HOHENSTAUFEN AND HOHENZOLLERN THE GERMAN LIBERALS BEFORE 1848 GERMAN LIBERALISM IN 1848 Chapter Seven 1866: ANNUS MIRABILIS THE REVIVAL OF NATIONALISM PRUSSIA AND LIBERALISM THE REVOLUTION OF 1866 LIBERALISM'S SURRENDER THE NEW REICH Chapter Eight MIRACLE OR MISFORTUNE? VOICES OF PROTEST THE IMPERIAL CROWN VOICES OF DISILLUSIONMENT Chapter Nine WAGNER AND HIS TIME RICHARD WAGNER IN 1848 HOHENSTAUFEN UND NIBELUNGEN THE DOOM OF THE GODS WAGNER'S POLITICAL IDEAS WAGNER AND NIETZSCHE NIETZSCHE THE PROTESTANT NIETZSCHE THE PORTENT Chapter Ten EUROPEAN HORIZONS NIETZSCHE AND RILKE AN UNKNOWN RILKE GEORGE, ROME, AND HELLAS GEORGE AND GERMANY HOFMANNSTHAL AND AUSTRIA GERMANY, THE WEST, AND THE WAR Chapter Eleven GERMANOPHILISM THE NATURE OF THE STATE CONSERVATIVE GERMANOPHILISM LIBERALS AND THE POWER STATE THE DRIFT TO WAR THE WAR Chapter Twelve OUT OF CATASTROPHE THE WEIMAR ILLUSION GERMANY AND RUSSIA A DEMOCRACY WITH FEW DEMOCRATS INTO THE ABYSS OUT OF CATASTROPHE SUGGESTED READINGS INDEX CONDITION: This Book is in very good condition. Book shows normal fairly minor sign of storage & age. Tight binding, clean text. Pages have turned yellow from age. The cover is scuffed, has corner & edge wear. Please see pictures. THE PICTURES ARE TO BE CONSIDERED AS PART OF THE DESCRIPTION. PLEASE REVIEW THEM FOR A BETTER IDEA OF CONDITION.
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Book Title: The Mind of Germany. The Education of a Nation
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Book Series: Political Science Books Everyone Should Read
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: Harper & Row
Original Language: English
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Edition: First Harper Torchbook Edition
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Publication Year: 1965
Type: Non-fiction
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Era: 1960s
Author: Hans Kohn (1891 – 1971)
Features: First Harper Torchbook Edition, 1st Edition Thus
Genre: History, German History, Political Science, Humanities, European history, political philosophy, Antiquarian & Collectible
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: history of ideas, Germany, Europe, political and intellectual trends, Nationalism, German Nationalism, European nationalism, German intellectual and political history, ethical ideals, power politics, social and political beliefs, Culture, politics and government, political ideologies, moral attitudes, authoritarianism, militarism, Historical and Political Thought, Germany’s political development
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