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

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

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

by Lindenfeld, David F

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University Of Chicago Press, 1997-06-23. First Edition. Hardcover. Acceptable/Missing. No DJ, otherwise very good+. Binding is tight/sturdy/square; text clean; shelfwear practically nonexistent. NOT an ex-library copy, NO remainder mark, NOT a book club. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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  • Title The Practical Imagination: The German Sciences of State in the Nineteenth Century
  • Author Lindenfeld, David F
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Acceptable
  • Pages 392
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University Of Chicago Press
  • Publication date 1997-06-23
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 217607
  • 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
  • Quantity available 1
  • Bookseller catalogues Science History and Philosophy

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From the publisher

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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