Binding: Paperback
Description: Adrian Daub's The Dynastic Imagination offers an unexpected account of modern German intellectual history through frameworks of family and kinship. Modernity aimed to brush off dynastic hierarchical authority and to make society anew through the mechanisms of marriage siblinghood and love. It was in other words centered on the nuclear family. But as Daub shows the dynastic imagination persisted in time emerging as a critical stance by which the nuclear family's conservatism and temporal limits could be exposed. Focusing on the complex interaction between dynasties and national identity - formation in Germany Daub shows how a lingering preoccupation with dynastic modes of explanation legitimation and organization suffused German literature and culture. Daub builds this conception of dynasty in a syncretic study of the literature sciences and history of ideas into the twentieth century. As early modernism discovered a standpoint from which to critique the nuclear family remnants of dynastic ideology kept their hold variously on Richard Wagner mile Zola Stefan George and Sigmund Freud. At every stage of cultural progression Daub reveals how the relation of dynastic to nuclear families inflected modern intellectual history.
Title: The Dynastic Imagination Family And Modernity In Nineteenth - Century Germany
Author(s): Daub Adrian
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226737874
Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Date: 1/29/2021
Category: Miscellaneous Items