German abstract theorizing tracked the peculiar politics of German unification.
Evidence
Marx once accounted for the radical etherialization of this whole tradition in terms of the “over-development” of German theorizing in contrast with the backwardness of its historical and economic development. But the career of the concept of “Spirit” also reflected to a significant degree the complex political history of German unification and the “peculiar” form in which Germany emerged as a nation-state. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 329
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships