POL 150C1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: German Nationalism, Buoyancy, Romantic Nationalism
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14 Nov 2014
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POL 150- Politics of Happiness - Lecture 11: German Nationalism
Wednesday 10/15/14
● Legitimacy, Authority, and Power
○ Legitimacy: the popular acceptance of a government’s or state’s authority; the
right to govern (as views by people, institutions, other states).
■ Traditional
■ Charismatic
■ Rational-Legal
○ Authority: The right to control, command and/or determine
○ Power: the ability to influence the people with or without resistance; tell the
people to do something they normally wouldn’t do.
● German Nationalism
○ German nationalism
○ Pan-germanism
○ Romantic nationalism
○ Important Historical roots
■ Recall tacitus praised German virtues in Germania; germans as a distinct
nation
○ Prussianism
○ from the early 19th-20th centuries = complex jewish relations
○ Role of Martin Luther & Protestant Reformation
■ Refocus on religion & church in the German setting
● Themes
○ Nature; seeking harmony with the world
○ simple rural life
○ introspection
○ reserved passion
○ education & intellectualism
○ Science & logic
○ Buoyancy & energy
○ Industry
○ Modernism
○ Enlightenment & Romanticism