In a lecture in 1923, Thomas Mann said that the ordinary middle-class German had never considered culture to include an interest in politics, and still did not do so. The idea of the true freedom which comes to the man who lives as much as possible in the invisible world of culture and accepts as a kind of fate his social, political and material circumstances was indeed at the heart of the German idealism of Goethe's day, and unworldliness went along with very great achievements in literature, scholarship and philosophy. ...
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In a lecture in 1923, Thomas Mann said that the ordinary middle-class German had never considered culture to include an interest in politics, and still did not do so. The idea of the true freedom which comes to the man who lives as much as possible in the invisible world of culture and accepts as a kind of fate his social, political and material circumstances was indeed at the heart of the German idealism of Goethe's day, and unworldliness went along with very great achievements in literature, scholarship and philosophy. Bildung, self-cultivation, came to be as natural a requirement of educated, middle-class life as sport was in England. In this book, originally published in 1975, Professor Bruford provides a sequel to Culture and Society in Classical Weimar 1775-1806 and shows how the ideal of self-cultivation entered into the thought of a number of highly individual German philosophers, theologians, poets and novelists, each in his own corner of the rapidly changing world of the nineteenth century.
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Add this copy of The German Tradition of Self-Cultivation: 'Bildung' to cart. $74.48, poor condition, Sold by Anybook rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lincoln, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1975 by Cambridge University Press.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 600grams, ISBN: 0521204828.
Add this copy of The German Tradition of Self-Cultivation: 'Bildung' to cart. $75.00, good condition, Sold by Second Story Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Rockville, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1975 by Cambridge University Press.
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Book. Octavo; VG-/VG-; purple spine with white text; first edition; dust jacket rear shows mild toning, probably due to age; clear Brodart covers to jacket; black cloth exterior very good; tight binding; straight boards; text block exterior edges lightly toned; light offsetting to endpapers, otherwise interior unmarked; pp 290. 1367552. FP New Rockville Stock.
Add this copy of The German Tradition of Self-Cultivation: 'Bildung' to cart. $360.05, new condition, Sold by Just one more Chapter, ships from Miramar, FL, UNITED STATES, published 1975 by Cambridge University Press.
