Re: Bildungsbuergertum / Intelligentsia

[cerebus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx(Anna-Sabine, Ernst, Gerwin, Klinger)]

Bildungsbuergertum
Chris is right: >The German word Buerger retains the ambiguity between
citizen and memberof the bourgeoisie, for which we have two words in
English: we have
the English word, citizen and the French word, bourgeois.<
The german Bildungsbuergertum beetween 1871-1945 is to regard as was
sense-making ("geistige") part of the national conservative elites
(officers, higher civil servants, etc.) Ringer (The decline of the german
mandarine) gives an impressions of this stratum or group. Mandrine is a
concept of Max Weber, describing the officials in china. as there were
officiers.
Typical for the german situation: In Germany the political power was in the
hand of the aristocratic class. The bourgeoisie-revolution in germany was
beaten. The "Bildungsbuergertum" (= university) was the compromise-form of
rising bourgeoisie, so called "Geistesadel".

gk




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