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German Freedom And The Greek Ideal: The Cultural Legacy From Goethe To Mann (palgrave Studies In Cultural And Intellectual History) by W. McGrath, C. Applegate, S. Frontz, S. Marchand is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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This book traces this German idea of freedom from the late Enlightenment through the early twentieth century. McGrath shows how German intellectual and artists invoked the ancient Greeks in order to inspire Germans to cultural renewal and to enrich their understanding of freedom as something deeper and more urgent that political life could offer. ** Review to come About the Author William J. McGrath was Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Rochester where he taught modern European thought and ancient history and was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities grant in 1978. Following a Fulbright fellowship year in Vienna, Professor McGrath completed his doctorate in 1965 at the University of California at Berkeley. He taught at the University of Chicago before moving to Rochester in 1971.

Author

W. McGrath, C. Applegate, S. Frontz, S. Marchand

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan US

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781137369475

Subjects

History, Humanities