Cultural Science/Kulturwissenschaft around 1900 and its Relevance for Cultural Relations
Cultural policy is increasingly determined by ideological controversies around European history and culture. After a rapid succession of different theories, the debate becomes increasingly normative: morally through the European hegemonic and colonial past, emotionally through identity politics and questions of belonging. What cultural-political and epistemological potential lay in cultural studies, which emerged from the flip side of nationalist and colonial European culture at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century?
