Between Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism:A Preliminary Exploration of the Community-Writing by Berlin Romanticism
The Berlin Romanticism,active on the German intellectual stage in the early nineteenth century,has made important contributions to the theoretical construction and literary writing of community.The political philosopher Adam Müller put forward a theory of community that emphasized wholeness,naturalness and historicity in his The Elements of Statecraft,published in 1809,while Berlin Romantic writers both implicitly or explicitly developed a literary imagination of the national community and a political practice of realizing the national community through Geselligkeit.In their writing on community,in addition to nationalism recognized by most previous studies,there is also an important dimension of cosmopolitanism:writers do not confine themselves to the boundaries of the nation,but think about the construction of the national community and the symbiosis with the cultural other in a global context,where multiple desires for harmonious coexistence,national independence and imperial colonization are entangled,and where nationalism and cosmopolitanism are not variations,but"in-betweenness".
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