The Decline of the German Mandarins: The German Academic Community, 1890–1933A splendid re-publication of an indispensable book on German history. |
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Contents
Introduction THE MANDARIN TYPE | 1 |
THE SOCIAL AND INSTITUTIONAL BACKGROUND | 14 |
THE MANDARIN TRADITION IN RETROSPECT | 81 |
POLITICS AND SOCIAL THEORY 18901918 | 128 |
THE POLITICAL CONFLICT AT ITS HEIGHT 19181933 | 200 |
THE ORIGINS OF THE CULTURAL CRISIS 18901920 | 253 |
FROM THE REVIVAL TO THE CRISIS OF LEARNING | 305 |
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Abitur academic community accommodationists Alfred Weber argument Berlin Brentano concept crisis critical cultivation cultural described Deutsche deutschen Deutschland developed Dilthey economic Eduard Spranger elite Ernst Troeltsch ethical faculty Ferdinand Tönnies Friedrich Meinecke Gegenwart geist Georg Simmel German academic German intellectuals German universities Geschichte groups gymnasium historians historical humanistic disciplines Ibid idea ideal idealistic ideology important individual influence intellectual and spiritual interest Karl knowledge Leipzig Leopold von Wiese logical Lujo Brentano mandarin Mannheim Max Weber ment modern modernists moral Munich natural neo-Kantian nineteenth century objective officials organization orthodox parties Paulsen percent philosophy political position positivism problem professors Prussian psychology purely reality reform revolution Rickert role Schmoller scholarship secondary schools sense Simmel Social Democrats social policy society sociology Sombart Spranger synthesis teachers Theodor Litt theory thought tion Tonnies tradition Universität values Weimar period Weltanschauung Werner Sombart whole Wiese Wilhelm Willy Hellpach Windelband Wissenschaft
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Page iii - Fritz K. Ringer, The Decline of the German Mandarins: The German Academic Community, 1890-1933 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), esp.