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The German Tradition of Self-Cultivation: “Bildung” from Humboldt to Thomas Mann. By W. H. Bruford. New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 1975. Pp. x, 290. $17.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2008

Fritz K. Ringek
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Central European History , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , March 1978 , pp. 107 - 113
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Copyright © Conference Group for Central European History of the American Historical Association 1978

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1. Of course there was room for a wide range of specific political orientations within the overall framework of what I have elsewhere called “mandarin” politics; only space limitations force me here to neglect the differences between the libertarian emphasis of Humboldt, of Troeltsch, and of Weber, the orthodox “national” conservatism of Spranger, and the fascist activism of Krieck (not Kriegk). The “unpolitical” position was in some sense vacuous—and so is the bare injunction to “be political.”

2. Bruford's sharpest language about Nietzsche occurs on pp. 168–69, 172–76, 178, 186–88; he expresses his reservations about Förster-Nietzsche as a source but draws on her nonetheless.

3. See esp. p. 170.