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ARANTES, Paulo Eduardo. An irresistible tendency to cultivate one's own personality. Trans/Form/Ação [online]. 2003, vol.26, n.1, pp. 7-51. ISSN 0101-3173.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0101-31732003000100001.

Study of the relationship between the cultivated jews of Berlin (represented by the figure of Rachel Varnhagen) and the German ical culture through the analysis of the role played in the latter by the idea of "personality", codeword of the German mandarins' ideology.

Palavras-chave : German ical culture; Bildung; Rachel Varnhagen; personality; German mandarins.