It used to be pretty easy to distinguish between the bourgeois world of capitalism and the bohemian counterculture. The bourgeois worked for corporations, wore grey, and went to church. The bohemians were the artists and intellectuals. Bohemians championed the values of the radi…
Das Versagen des deutschen Bürgertums vor der Herausforderung des Nationalsozialismus scheint auf den ersten Blick evident. Auf den zweiten Blick ist die Diagnose weniger eindeutig – und legt die Frage nach bürgerlichen Beharrungskräften ebenso nahe wie die nach spezifischen Str…
"In the last generation the classic Marxist interpretation of the French Revolution has been challenged by the so-called revisionist school. The Marxist view that the Revolution was a bourgeois and capitalist revolution has been questioned by Anglo-Saxon revisionists like Alfred…
What does it mean to be modern? Jerrold Seigel offers a magisterial account of the development of European modernity.
