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The Internalized Revolution
About This Book
This book, originally published in 1992, traces the discourse on the French Revolution in Germany and its contributors investigate the processes and results of adopting or rejecting the values of the French Revolution in Germany and reinterprets its documents in terms of their internalization. One of the questions discussed is whether the French Revolution is part of Germany's progressive tradition, that is, whether it has been repressed or whether it constitutes a viable counter-discourse within the political culture. The first successful revolution in Germany â the 'Velvet Revolution' of Autumn 1989 does not fit the definition of 'classic revolutions, but it ended in a change of power in Germany and in that respect, this book is an anatomy of German political consciousness before 1989.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Original Title Page
- Original Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- The French Revolution as Reflected in German Literature and Political Journals from 1789 to 1800
- Internalizing the Counter-Revolution: Wieland and the Illuminati Scare
- Kant and the French Revolution
- The Beautiful Society and the Symbolic Work of Art: The Anti-Revolutionary Origin of the Bildungsroman
- Gedankenfreiheit: From Political Reform to Aesthetic Revolution in Schiller's Works
- Georg Forster and the Mainz Revolution
- The French Revolution and the German Romanticists
- Hölderlin and the French Revolution
- Heinrich Heine: The Revolution as Epic and Tragedy
- The Literature in History: Biichner's Danton and the French Revolution
- Race, Revolution, and Writing: Caribbean Texts by Anna Seghers
- Models of the French Revolution and Paradigm Change in Contemporary German Drama: Peter Weiss and Heiner MĂŒller
- Bibliography: A Select Checklist
- Notes on the Contributors
- Index of Names