{"product_id":"grace-talent-and-merit-poor-students-clerical-careers-and-professional-ideology-in-eighteenth-century-germany-paperback-9780521525145","title":"Grace, Talent, and Merit; Poor Students, Clerical Careers, and Professional Ideology in Eighteenth-Century Germany (Paperback) 9780521525145","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eGrace, Talent, and Merit\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePoor Students, Clerical Careers, and Professional Ideology in Eighteenth-Century Germany\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis 1988 book examines the experience of upwardly mobile young men in early modern Germany.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAnthony J. La Vopa (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521525145, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 27 June 2002\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e424 pages\u003cbr\u003e23 x 15.3 x 2.8 cm, 0.68 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"...Grace, Talent, and Merit is an original book which ingeniously weaves together information from a variety of sources ranging from sermons to autobiographies to private correspondence to works of philosophy.  This book makes a valuable contribution to the history of education in its broadest sense.\"   Katharine D. Kennedy, History of Education Quarterly\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePoor students experienced a kind of upward mobility that was not uncommon in old-regime Europe. They were also objects of controversy. and as such they reveal the many dimensions of the issue of opening careers to talent. At stake were socially and politically sensitive questions about the relative importance of nature and nurture, of natural talent and 'birth', in realizing human potential; about the proper reconciliation of collective imperatives and individual freedom, of hierarchical stability and progress; about how national systems of education should be structured; about the kind and degree of upward mobility the society and the culture needed and could tolerate. This 1988 book shows how a cluster of familiar eighteenth-century ideas about grace, talent, and merit shaped a formative social experience for men whose importance is still celebrated today, as well as for members of the educated elite who were and have remained obscure.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Poor Students: 1. Realities and stereotypes\u003cbr\u003e 2. Initiations\u003cbr\u003e 3. The patronage chain: structure and ideology\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Hofmeister\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Calling, Vocation, and Service: 5. The calling: August Hermann Francke and Halle Pietism\u003cbr\u003e 6. Vocation: the natural self and the ethic of reason\u003cbr\u003e 7. Meritocracy: language and ideology\u003cbr\u003e 8. The egalitarian alternative: theory and practice\u003cbr\u003e Part III. New Departures: 9. Orthodoxies and new idioms\u003cbr\u003e 10. Professional ideologies: the making of a teaching corps\u003cbr\u003e 11. The clerical identity\u003cbr\u003e 12. Radical visions: Johann Gottlieb Fichte\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e Bibliographical notes\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Modern%20history%20to%2020th%20century:%20c%201700%20to%20c%201900%20%5BHBLL%5D%22\"\u003eHBLL\u003c\/a\u003e], European history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on European history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22European%20history%20%5BHBJD%5D%22\"\u003eHBJD\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45913199673624,"sku":"9780521525145","price":36.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521525145i_7849eb12-1c39-451d-a6cd-93a36651f8c2.jpg?v=1691368881","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/grace-talent-and-merit-poor-students-clerical-careers-and-professional-ideology-in-eighteenth-century-germany-paperback-9780521525145","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}