The Emancipation of Writing: German Civil Society in the Making, 1790s–1820s: 48 (Studies on the History of Society and Culture) - Hardcover

McNeely, Ian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520233301 ISBN 13: 9780520233300

Verlag: University of California Press, 2003

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Book by McNeely Ian F

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"A superbly crafted major intervention into the hotly contested issue of German civil society - its origins, formation, and fate. McNeely turns the tables on deconstructive approaches to formalism in writing and shows how writing was thoroughly implicated in state power and corporate culture."-David Sabean, author of Kinship in Neckarhausen, 1700-1870

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The Emancipation of Writing is the first study of writing in its connection to bureaucracy, citizenship, and the state in Germany. Stitching together micro- and macro-level analysis, it reconstructs the vibrant, textually saturated civic culture of the German southwest in the aftermath of the French Revolution and Napoleon's invasions. Ian F. McNeely reveals that Germany's notoriously oppressive bureaucracy, when viewed through the writing practices that were its lifeblood, could also function as a site of citizenship. Citizens, acting under the mediation of powerful local scribes, practiced their freedoms in written engagements with the state. Their communications laid the basis for civil society, showing how social networks commonly associated with the free market, the free press, and the voluntary association could also take root in powerful state institutions.

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• Verlag: University of California Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0520233301
• ISBN 13: 9780520233300
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 345