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Lädt ... A Mighty Fortress: A New History of the German Peoplevon Steven Ozment
All Things Germany (30) Lädt ...
Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Chapter 7 especially well describes the evolution of German thought: from the dualistic view of man implicit in Luther's dilemma through the "classical" discussion of the duality of may raided in "Dr. Faust", continuing through the German Idealists Kant, then Hegel, then Feuerbach's criticism of individualism in Christian thought described in "The Essence of Christianity," on to Marx's more harsh (and politicized) condemnation of individualism, the underlying premise of Christianity, whose ultimate end is property and the depersonalization of mankind. Similar currents in philosophy regarding the inclusion of God into man's mind...essentially making God a construction of man, even Luther's intimation that the mind open to God will hear God, used to justify the premise that God is a mental construct. Finally the apotheosis a la Nietsche, of a Superman. Culturally, analogous to the super Volk. Summarizing the people: "A historically informed, mature German polity will likely be more limiting of freedom than are the egalitarian democracies of France and the United States, which have arguable forgotten how to discipline freedom and consequently lost control of the individual. In the evolution of Rousseau's and Robispierre's France, and Jefferson's and Emerson's America, individual freedom appears to have become a right of self-absorption, threatening the citizen's responsibility to the public sphere and the believer's obligation to God. The Germans do not believe that true freedom must be untidy, or that a free people have the right to run amok. The new German democracy will likely tolerate more radical, but shorter-lived, dissent and resistance to the state. To the extent that the waning of authority and order has become more problematic to the world's older democracies than the expansion offreesom and equality, the new German democracy may offer a solution for liberal democracy's modern ills." keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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The pages, like many history books, are long on rulers, battles, regime changes, and short on what was happening to ordinary people, leaving me wondering what really changed and what didn't sometimes.
There are interesting references to the history of ideas, including a chapter about nineteenth century philosophers and political thinkers. Hitler and the Nazi's got their chapter, one that explained much to me.
I was looking for a book that especially clarified early germanic history as well as the last two centuries, and this one filled the bill. The fourteen page introduction is worth reading on its own. ( )