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- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Copyright
- © Georgetown University
- ISSN
- 1045-0300
- eISSN
- 1558-5441
- DOI
- 10.3167/gps.2011.290402
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
<jats:p>Among the challenges of today's globalizing world is the disruption that local communities experience, in developed and developing countries alike, in the face of economic and political modernization. Yet, such problems are not unprecedented. To the contrary, communities across nineteenth-century Europe faced similar difficulties as a result of the Industrial Revolution and political upheaval. For insights into such challenges, I turn to a perhaps unlikely resource for coming to grips with globalization: Jeremias Gotthelf, whose novel Die Käserei in der Vehfreude has been described by Hanns Peter Holl as an “examination of European developments of the 1840s.“ Through his portrayal of a Swiss village's attempt to form a cheese-making cooperative and sell its wares, with all the difficulties it encounters in the process, Gotthelf reveals himself as an important political thinker, whose treatment of democracy, community, and modernity remains relevant for us today. </jats:p>
Journal
German Politics and Society – Berghahn Books
Published: Dec 1, 2011