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Author_Ian McNeely
black forest
bureaucracy
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Category=DSB
Category=NHD
Category=NHTB
citizenship
civic culture
civil society
duchy of wurttemberg
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europe
foucault
free market
free press
french revolution
german history
german identity
german southwest
germany
government
habermas
history
identity
intelligenzblatt
invasion
military
modes of power
napoleon
nation
nonfiction
occupation
resistance
schorndorf
schreiber
scribes
social networks
state authority
state power
war
welzheim
writing
writing practices
wurttemberg
Product details
- ISBN 9780520233300
- Weight: 635g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 21 Jan 2003
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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The Emancipation of Writing is the first study of writing in its connection to bureaucracy, citizenship, and the state in Germany. Stitching together micro- and macro-level analysis, it reconstructs the vibrant, textually saturated civic culture of the German southwest in the aftermath of the French Revolution and Napoleon's invasions. Ian F. McNeely reveals that Germany's notoriously oppressive bureaucracy, when viewed through the writing practices that were its lifeblood, could also function as a site of citizenship. Citizens, acting under the mediation of powerful local scribes, practiced their freedoms in written engagements with the state. Their communications laid the basis for civil society, showing how social networks commonly associated with the free market, the free press, and the voluntary association could also take root in powerful state institutions.
Ian F. McNeely is Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon.
