Mehring investigates what he calls "the democratic gap"—the discrepancy between democratic ideals and practices—and demonstrates the concept by recounting the experiences of German i
Follen had to flee his native Germany, and then Switzerland because of his activity as a radical student, arriving in the US in 1824. He began teaching German at Harvard, and became a noted intellectu
Politics and Cultures of Liberation: Media, Memory, and Projections of Democracy focuses on mapping, analyzing, and evaluating memories, rituals, and artistic responses to the theme of “liberation.” T
