Un rapport d'attirance et de rejet lie les Suisses allemands à leur grand voisin allemand. Des écrivains, sociologues, historiens et journalistes alémaniques livrent ici une grille de lecture de l'Allemagne d'aujourd'hui.
Mayhew's German Life and Manners as Seen in Saxony, which appeared in 1864 and was compared with Hawthorne's book as soon as the latter was published. Mayhew signals in his Preface that he has not gone looking for sophistication: It has ...
Enlightenment Phantasies presents the shaping of cultural identity in narratives accessible not only to specialists but also to students and all readers concerned with the history of Western culture.