Inventing Nations: Justifications of Authority in the Modern World

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Greenwood Press, 1996 - 155 páginas


Pickett examines the causes of the unprecedented escalation of conflict and violence in our age and links them to the major justifications for authority in the modern world. These justifications--liberalism, nationalism, and socialism--are anchored in an 18th-century anthropology exemplified by the works of Herder and Goethe. The author focuses on Germany as an exemplary case study of the development of nationalism. This study reflects the new emphasis on developing cultural and intertextual studies.

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TERRY H. PICKETT is Professor of German at the University of Alabama, where he has taught since 1969. He is the author of a monograph on the American Fourierist Albert Brisbane and a biographical study of the German man of letters K.A. Varnhagen von Ense. In addition, he has published numerous articles.

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