The German Tradition of Self-Cultivation: 'Bildung' from Humboldt to Thomas Mann
ISBN: 9780521129008 | 0521129001
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 2/4/2010
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In this book Professor Bruford 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.
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 ... MORE
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 ... MORE
| Acknowledgements | |
| Introduction | |
| Wilhelm von Humboldt in his letters | |
| Goethe: Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre (1795-6) | |
| Friedrich Schleiermacher: Monologen (1801) | |
| Goethe: Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre (1829) | |
| Arthur Schopenhauer: Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit (1851) | |
| Adalbert Stifter: Der Nachsommer (1857) | |
| Friedrich Theodor Vischer: Auch ... MORE | |
| Freidrich Nietzsche: 'Also sprach Zarathustra' (1883-5) | |
| Theodor Fontance: Frau Jenny Treibel (1892) | |
| Thomas Mann: Der Zauberberg (1924) | |
| The conversion of an unpolitical man | |
| Conclusion | |
| Notes | |
| Bibliography | |
| Index | |
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