Re: Bildungsbuergertum / Intelligentsia

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

>Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 05:57:49 +0000
>To:"Chris, London" <100423.2040@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>From:cerebus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx(Anna-Sabine Ernst, Gerwin Klinger)
>Subject:Re: Bildungsbuergertum / Intelligentsia
>Cc: ML
>
>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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