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The Longing for Myth in Germany: Religion and Aesthetic Culture from Romanticism to Nietzsche. By George S. Williamson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2004. Pp. 376. $55.00 (cloth); $24 (paper). ISBN 0-226-89945-4 (cloth); 0-226-89946-2 (paper).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 May 2006

Matthew Levinger
Matthew Levinger
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Lewis & Clark College
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Abstract

“Christianity has emptied Walhalla, felled the sacred groves, extirpated the national imagery as a shameful superstition, as a devilish poison, and given us instead the imagery of a nation whose climate, laws, culture, and interests are strange to us and whose history has no connection whatever with our own” (p. 72). The young Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel voiced this lament in 1796, while working as a private tutor in Berne.

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Book Review
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Central European History , Volume 39 , Issue 2 , June 2006 , pp. 306 - 308
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© 2006 Conference Group for Central European History of the American Historical Association

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