Becoming Historical

Cultural Reformation and Public Memory in Early Nineteenth-Century Berlin

By: John Edward Toews

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Hardcover | 17 June 2005

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This book examines the ways in which selfhood and cultural solidarity came to be understood and lived as historical identities during the 1800s. It examines the stages and conflicts in the process of 'becoming historical' through the works of prominent Prussian artists and intellectuals (Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Felix Mendelssohn, Jacob Grimm, Friedrich Karl von Savigny, Leopold von Ranke) who attached their personal visions to the reformist agenda of the Prussian regime that took power in 1840. The historical account of the evolution of analogous and inter-related commitments to a cultural reformation that would create communal solidarity through subjective identification with public memory is framed by the philosophical perspectives on historical selfhood provided by F. W. J. Schelling and his radical critics, Karl Marx and Soren Kierkegaard, thus drawing this story of building selves and communities in early nineteenth century Berlin into current debates about historical determined and contingently constructed identities.

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From reviews of the hardback: 'In Becoming Historical, John Toews provides a challenging and thought-provoking reworking of the cultural and intellectual history of Berlin in the early nineteenth century. The analysis Toews offers is sophisticated, subtle and perceptive, providing new perspectives both on the 'old chestnuts' of German intellectual history and on the cultural politics of nationhood. It will undoubtedly emerge as a key text on the cultural and intellectual history of this period.' English Historical Review

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Philosophical Prologue: Historical Ontology and Cultural Politics Schelling in Berlin, 1841-1845
Historicism in Power: 1840 and the Historical turn in Prussian Cultural Politics
Nation, church, and the politics of historical identification: Frederick William IV's vision of cultural reformation
'Redeemed Nationality': Christian Bunsen and the transformation of ethnic peoples into ethical communities under the guidance of the historical principle
Architectural and Musical Historicism: Aesthetic Education and Cultural Reformation
Building historical identities in space and stone: Schinkel's search for the shape of ethical community
The generation of community from the spirit of music: Mendelssohn's musical constructions of historical identity
Law, Language, and History: Cultural Identity and the Self-Constituting Subject in the Historical School
The tension between immanent and transcendent subjectivity in the historical school of law: from Savigny to Stahl
The past as a foreign home: Jacob Grimm and the relation between language and historical identity
Ranke and the ideology of the Christian-German State: contested historical identities and the transcendent foundations of the historical subject
Anti-Philosophical Epilogue: Historicizing self-identity in Kierkegaard and Marx, 1841-1846
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Becoming Historical

Cultural Reformation and Public Memory in Early Nineteenth-Century Berlin

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