This book traces this German idea of freedom from the late Enlightenment through the early twentieth century. McGrath shows how German intellectual and artists invoked the ancient Greeks in order to inspire Germans to cultural renewal and to enrich their understanding of freedom as something deeper and more urgent that political life could offer.
Format: Hardback
CONTRIBUTORS: W. McGrath
EAN: 9781137369475
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 4483 g
HEIGHT: 216 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Palgrave Macmillan
DATE PUBLISHED: 2013-12-18
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GENRE: HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Modern / General, HISTORY / Social History
WIDTH: 140 cm
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Book Themes:
Central Europe, History, European history, Social and cultural history
William J. McGrath was Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Rochester where he taught modern European thought and ancient history and was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities grant in 1978. Following a Fulbright fellowship year in Vienna, Professor McGrath completed his doctorate in 1965 at the University of California at Berkeley. He taught at the University of Chicago before moving to Rochester in 1971.
