Viewpoints of Slovene Intellectuals Referring to Germans and German Culture from the Age of Enlightenment to the Modern Age

Abstract

In his treatise the author analyses the viewpoints of a Slovene intellectual referring to Germans and German culture, as reflecting through the best Slovene literature from the Age of Enlightenment until approximately 1900. He states the development from cooperation (looking upon German culture as the second culture of a Slovene intellectual) up to the state of complete separation and even hostility against everything being German as consequences of German nationalistic oppression of Slovenes.