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Between Natives and Foreigners: Selected Writings of Karl/Charles Follen
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Between Natives and Foreigners: Selected Writings of Karl/Charles Follen (1796-1840) Hardcover - 2008

by Werner Sollors (Editor); Frank Mehring (Editor)


From the publisher

Karl/Charles Follen has not only been described as a dangerous revolutionary, but he has also been praised as the emblematic representative of German philosophical idealism and theological liberalism. This edition introduces, for the first time, a broad selection of Follen's controversial writings, emphasizing the multilingual dimension of his oeuvre in Germany, Switzerland, and the United States. His essays, lectures, sermons, speeches, and poems concern the challenges of democracy in the socio-political climate of the political Vormrz in Germany and the Jacksonian era in the United States. Follen's writings emerge as a unique storehouse of ideas on topics such as resistance against an aristocratic government, intellectual self-culture, German-American cultural transfer, challenges of American democracy, the reception of German literature, and philosophy during the crucial years of the American Renaissance.

Details

  • Title Between Natives and Foreigners: Selected Writings of Karl/Charles Follen (1796-1840)
  • Author Werner Sollors (Editor); Frank Mehring (Editor)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 479
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi, New York
  • Date 2008
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780820497327 / 0820497320
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: British
    • Cultural Region: Germany
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007018974
  • Dewey Decimal Code 430.92

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Citations

  • Reference and Research Bk News, 11/01/2007, Page 252

About the author

The Editor: Frank Mehring earned his Doctor of Philosophy degree at the Justus Liebig Universitt Gieen and is Assistant Professor at the Department of Cultural Studies of the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at the Free University Berlin. His previous publications include Karl/Charles Follen: Deutsch-Amerikanischer Freiheitskmpfer (2004), Sphere Melodies: Die Manifestation Transzendentalistischer Ideen in der Musik von Charles Ives und John Cage (2003), and Sight & Sound: Naturbilder in der Englischen und Amerikanischen Romantik (2001).