Politics and the Sciences of Culture in Germany 1840-1920

Dados Bibliográficos

ID19971397
AutoresWoodruff D Smith (autor correspondente)
Ano1991
Páginas298
Data de publicação1991-06-20
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoPolitics and the sciences of culture in Germany, 1840-1920 (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraOxford University PressNew York, NY (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/oso/9780195065367.001.0001
OpenAlexW4388346933
Open LibraryOL1881936M
ISBN9780195065367
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas42

This book traces the roots of German imperialist ideology by examining the German cultural sciences of the 19th century, a group of academic disciplines, such as anthropology, demography, cultural history, and psychology, that blossomed in the nineteenth century and took culture as their primary object of study. Smith analyses the political implications of the patterns of thinking that emerged in the cultural sciences, tracing for example, the evolution of human geography from an attempt to understand human migration patterns to a justification for German expansionism. In so doing, Smith makes dramatically clear the close relationship between elements of Nazi ideology and certain theories of the cultural sciences, irrespective of the political opinions of the proponents of those theories

Archaeology · Epistemology · Expansionism · German · Human science · Ideology · Nazism · Object (grammar) · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · History · History, Culture, and Diplomacy · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, History, and Historiography · Social and Cultural Dynamics · 19th century · 20th century · Germany · Germany (West) · Intellectual life · Learning and scholarship · Politics and culture · politics and government