The dynastic imagination : family and modernity in nineteenth-century Germany /

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Author / Creator:Daub, Adrian, author.
Imprint:Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2021.
Description:1 online resource (253 pages)
Language:English
Subject:Families -- Germany -- Philosophy -- History -- 19th century.
HISTORY -- General.
Civilization.
Families -- Philosophy.
Intellectual life.
Germany -- Civilization -- 19th century.
Germany -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
Germany.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12519084
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ISBN:022673790X
9780226737904
Notes:Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 27, 2021).
Summary: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 literature, sciences, and the history of ideas, engaging with remnants of dynastic ideology in the work of Richard Wagner, Émile Zola, and Stefan George, and in the work of early feminists and pioneering psychoanalysts. At every stage of cultural progression, Daub reveals how the relation of dynastic to nuclear families inflected modern intellectual history.
Other form:Print version: Daub, Adrian. Dynastic Imagination. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2021 9780226737737