{"product_id":"spirit-and-system-dominic-boyer-9780226068909","title":"Spirit and System: Media, Intellectuals, and the Dialectic in Modern German Culture","description":"Combining ethnography, history, and social theory, Dominic Boyer's \u003ci\u003eSpirit and System\u003c\/i\u003e exposes how the shifting fortunes and social perceptions of German intellectuals in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries influenced Germans' conceptions of modernity and national culture. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBoyer analyzes the creation and mediation of the social knowledge of \"German-ness\" from nineteenth-century university culture and its philosophies of history, to the media systems and redemptive public cultures of the Third Reich and the German Democratic Republic, to the present-day experiences of former East German journalists seeking to explain life in post-unification Germany. Throughout this study, Boyer reveals how dialectical knowledge of \"German-ness\"--that is, knowledge that emphasizes a cultural tension between an inner \"spirit\" and an external \"system\" of social life --is modeled unconsciously upon intellectuals' self-knowledge as it tracks their fluctuation between alienation and utopianism in their interpretations of nation and modernity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dominic Boyer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226068900\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226068909\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/15\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.26lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.28h x 6.50w x 0.96d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2006 pg. 552","brand":"Dominic Boyer","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086390866175,"sku":"9780226068909","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b2728c2e-42ac-4807-9892-9e36f581fac2.jpg?v=1769094407","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/spirit-and-system-dominic-boyer-9780226068909","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}