Zeitgeist - How Ideas Travel. Politics, Culture and the Public in the Age of Revolution
- Submitting institution
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University of Nottingham, The
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 3910038
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1515/9783110631531
- Publisher
- de Gruyter
- ISBN
- 978-3-11-063153-1
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This 150,000-word monograph is based on research supported by a Leverhulme Research Fellowship. It is the first book-length study in English of the emergence of the modern concept of zeitgeist, and the first globally for nearly 50 years. Working across the disciplines of political, social, and intellectual history, language, and cultural studies, the book argues that the socio-cultural concept of zeitgeist contributed to the formation of modern politics and modern societies around 1800. It also captures key aspects of the social process by which ideas have been disseminated within societies and across borders since then.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Chapter 7 revisits aspects treated in: [1] Culture and Identity: Historicity in German Literature and Thought 1770-1815 (2006), and [2] ‘Germania and Great(er) Britain: German Scholarship and the Legitimization of the British Empire’ in Angermion (2012), 91-118; both submitted to REF2014.
The monograph updates these older discussions and approaches them from a different angle. The new analysis focuses on the emergence and use of the Northern identity to consolidate a new social collective.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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