Volksgeist

Abstract: PART I The Nation: A Medieval Heritage I Prelude to Nationhood, Basic Concepts, The Germanic Invasions, Towards a Synthesis, The Carolingian Empire 2 Domains of Statehood and Nationhood Introduction, Britannia, Gallia, Germania, ltalia, Hispania, Provisional Conclusions, PART II The Development of Nationalism: Structural Factors 3 Capitalism and Nationalism 4 State and Nationalism 5 Class, Civil Society and Nationalism 6 Church, Civil Religion and Nationalism, PART III The Development of Nationalism: Ideological Factors 7 Political and Cultural Nationalism, Introduction: Some Terminological Problems, The Origins of the Idea of National Character in Montesquieu and Hume, Rosseau and Political Nationalism, Herder and Cultural Nationalism, Hegel on the Volksgeist, Romanticism and Nationalism, PART IV The Development of Nationalism: Historical Processes, 8 The Force of Historical Events: The French Revolution and its Aftermaths, 9 Nationalist Paths to Modernity, PART V Theoretical Recapitulation

Abstract: Historians of ideas, and students of nationalism in particular, have traced the origins of much of our current vocabulary and ways of thinking about the nation back to Johann Gottfried Herder. This volume provides a clear, readable, and reliable translation of Auch eine Philosophie der Geschichte zur Bildung der Menschheit , supplemented by some of Herder's other important writings on politics and history. The editors' insightful Introduction traces the role of Herder's thought in the evolution of nationalism and highlights its influence on fields such as history, anthropology, and politics. The volume is designed to give English-speaking readers more ready access to the thinker whom Isaiah Berlin called the father of the related notions of nationalism, historicism, and Volksgeist.

Abstract: Franz Boas, the founding figure of anthropology in America, came to the United States from Germany in 1886. This volume in the History of Anthropology series explores the extent and significance of Boas' roots in the German intellectual tradition and late-19th century German anthropology.

Abstract: AcknowledgmentsIntroduction Robert Bernasconi1. Negroes Alain David (College Internationale de Philosophie de paris)2. "One Far Off Divine Event": "Race" and a Future History in Du Bois Kevin Thomas Miles3. Douglass and Du Bois's Der Schwartze Volksgeist Ronald R. Sundstrom4. On the Use and Abuse of Race in Philosophy: Nietzsche, Jews, and Race Jacqueline Scott5. Heidegger and Race Sonia Sikka6. Ethos and Ethnos: An Introduction to Eric Voegelin's Critique of European Racism David J. Levy (Middlesex University)7. Tropiques and Suzanne Cesaire: The Expanse of Negritude and Surrealism T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting8. Losing Sight of the Real: Recasting Merleau-Ponty in Fanon's critique of Mannoni Nigel Gibson9. Fanon Reading (W)right, the (W)right Reading of Fanon: Race, Modernity, and the Fate of Humanism Lou Turner10. Alienation and Its Double, Or the Secretion of Race Kelly Oliver11. (Anti-Semitic) Subject, Liberal In/Tolerance, Universal Politics: Sartre Re-petitioned Erik Vogt (Wadham College, Oxford)12. Sartre and the Social Construction of Race Donna Marcano13. The Interventions of Culture: Claude Levi-Strauss, Race, and the Critique of Historical Time Kamala Visweswaran14. All Power to the People! Hannah Arendt's Theory of Communicative Action in a Racialized Democracy Joy James15. Beyond Black Orpheus: Preliminary Thoughts on the Good of African Philosophy Jason M. WirthAppendix: L'Homme de Coleur Leopold Sedar SenghorContributorsIndex