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Author Lindenfeld, David F.

Title The practical imagination : the German sciences of state in the nineteenth century / David F. Lindenfeld.

Publication Info. Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, [1997]
©1997

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Description 1 online resource (x, 382 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-370) and index.
Summary Drawing on the work of Foucault and Bourdieu, David Lindenfeld illuminates the practical imagination as it was exhibited in the transformation of the political and social sciences during the changing conditions of nineteenth-century Germany. Using a wealth of information from state and university archives, private correspondence, and a survey of lecture offerings in German universities, Lindenfeld examines the original group of learned disciplines which originated in eighteenth-century Germany as a curriculum to train state officials in the administration and reform of society and which includ.
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Subject Social sciences -- Germany -- History -- 19th century.
Social sciences.
Germany.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Public administration -- Germany -- History -- 19th century.
Public administration.
Policy sciences -- History -- 19th century.
Policy sciences.
Germany -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
Intellectual life.
Chronological Term 1800 - 1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Lindenfeld, David F. Practical imagination. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©1997 0226482413 (DLC) 96043699 (OCoLC)35526312
ISBN 0226482448 (electronic book)
9780226482446 (electronic book)
9780226482422 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0226482421 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780226482415
0226482413
0226482413 (alkaline paper)
0226482421 (paperback ; alkaline paper)