Output details
30 - History
University College London
Chapter title
Adel als Berufung: Adlige Schriftsteller im deutschsprachigen Europadiskurs, 1919-1945
Type
C - Chapter in book
DOI
-
Publisher of book
Böhlau
Book title
Aristokratismus und Moderne
ISBN of book
978-3-412-21007-6
Year of publication
2012
URL
-
Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
-
Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
Yes
English abstract
With reference to Max Weber’s theory of politics as a ‘vocation’, I discuss the special case of the ‘aristocratic writer’ as an ideal type of intellectual of noble birth, who contributed to German publications on the subject of geopolitics and specifically European identity in the period from 1919 to 1945. My argument is that after the abolition of the nobility, aristocratic status became comparable with a vocational identity that was particularly suitable to elite intellectual circles in interwar Europe.
