Resisting Pluralization and Globalization in German Culture, 1490-1540 : Visions of a Nation in Decline /
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| Author / Creator: | Hess, Peter, author. |
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| Imprint: | Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2020] |
| Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12453877 |
Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Introduction
- Part I: A World in Decline: Anxieties about Social and Political Order
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Order and Discipline: Visions and Anxieties
- Chapter 2. Gute Policey: Saving or Disrupting the Order?
- Chapter 3. Defending Order and Discipline in Dyl Ulenspiegel
- Chapter 4. A Dystopian Topsy-Turvy World
- Chapter 5. Innovation and Progress as Agents of Decline
- Chapter 6. History as Decline and Brant's Vision of the End of History
- Chapter 7. The Communal Order and the Problem of Self-Interest
- Chapter 8. The Decline of the Community: Common Good and Self-Interest as Literary Metaphors
- Part II: Staying Home: Resistance to Expanding Spatial Horizons
- Introduction
- Chapter 9. Spatial Expansion and Its Narratives
- Chapter 10. From Chronicle to Cosmography (and Chorography): The Rise of Synchronic Narratives of the World
- Chapter 11. Ptolemy's Grid and the New Cosmography in Germany: Waldseemüller and His Legacy
- Chapter 12. Emancipation from Ancient Concepts of Space
- Chapter 13. Spatial Discoveries: Anxieties and Rejection in Brant's Writings
- Chapter 14. Spatial Anxieties in Literary Texts of the Early Sixteenth Century
- Chapter 15. America and the Epistemological Crisis of Space: An Afterthought
- Part III: Globalization and the Nationalistic Backlash in Germany
- Chapter 16. Theory of Early Modern Globalization
- Chapter 17. The Emerging Global Trade from a German Perspective
- Chapter 18. The Backlash Against the New Economy
- Chapter 19. Macro-Economic Critique of the Emerging Global Trade
- Chapter 20. Nationalistic and Xenophobic Responses to Foreign Influences
- Chapter 21. The Global Spice Trade: Breaching Traditional Values and Violating the Divine Order
- Chapter 22. The Backlash Against Globalization: The Rhetoric of Moral Decline and the Nostalgia Project
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
