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The Practical Imagination: The German Sciences of State in the Nineteenth Century Hardback - 1997

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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 included economics, statistics, politics, public administration, finance, and state law, as well as agriculture, forestry, and mining. He explores the ways in which some systems of knowledge became extinct, and how new ones came into existence, while other migrated to different subject areas.

Lindenfeld argues that these sciences of state developed a technique of deliberation on practical issues such as tax policy and welfare, that serves as a model for contemporary administrations.

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Title The Practical Imagination: The German Sciences of State in the Nineteenth Century
Author David F. Lindenfeld
Binding Hardback
Edition First Edition
Pages 392
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Publication date 1997-06
Illustrated Yes
Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
ISBN 9780226482415 / 0226482413
Weight 1.54 lbs (0.70 kg)
Dimensions 9.33 x 6.26 x 1.05 in (23.70 x 15.90 x 2.67 cm)
Reading level 1630
Themes
- Cultural Region: Germany
Category History - General History
Library of Congress subjects Germany - Intellectual life - 19th century, Social sciences - Germany - History - 19th
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 96043699
Dewey Decimal Code 320.943

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