The Politics of the Unpolitical: German Writers and the Problem of Power, 1770-1871

by Gordon A. Craig and Grodon Craig

In a book written during the First World War, Thomas Mann wrote that political activity was alien to the German spirit and that "in fact the political element was absent from the German concept of education." The Politics of the Unpolitical demonstrates the essential unreliability of this generalization by focusing on the political activity of ten of Germany's most widely respected writers in the period from the French Revolution to the founding of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195094999
• ISBN13: 9780195094992
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.6"