TY - BOOK AU - Lindenfeld,David F. TI - The practical imagination: the German sciences of state in the nineteenth century SN - 0226482448 AV - H53.G4 L56 1997eb U1 - 320.943 20 PY - 1997/// CY - Chicago, Ill. PB - University of Chicago Press KW - Social sciences KW - Germany KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Public administration KW - Policy sciences KW - Sciences sociales KW - Allemagne KW - Histoire KW - 19e siècle KW - Administration publique (Science) KW - Sciences de la politique KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE KW - Political Process KW - General KW - bisacsh KW - Intellectual life KW - fast KW - Vie intellectuelle KW - Electronic book KW - Electronic books KW - gtlm N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-370) and index N2 - Drawing on the work of Foucault and Bourdieu, David Lindenfeld illuminates the practical imagination as it was exhibited in the transformation of the political and social sciences during the changing conditions of nineteenth-century Germany. Using a wealth of information from state and university archives, private correspondence, and a survey of lecture offerings in German universities, Lindenfeld examines the original group of learned disciplines which originated in eighteenth-century Germany as a curriculum to train state officials in the administration and reform of society and which includ UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=35131 ER -