German intellectuals and the Nazi past

This book examines West German intellectual debates about the Nazi past by explaining why they were so relentlessly polarized. Germans argued about the viability of their very nationality: was it stigmatized, stained, or polluted by crimes of the Third Reich? Or was it really like any other nation?...

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Autor principal: Moses, A. Dirk (-)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 2009
Edición:1st paperback ed
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  • Introduction Chapter One: Stigma and Structure in German Memory Chapter Two: The Languages of Republicanism and West German Political Generations Chapter Three: The Forty-Fivers: A Generation between Fascism and Democracy Chapter Four: The German German
  • The Integrative Republicanism of Wilhelm Hennis Chapter Five: The Non-German German
  • The Redemptive Republicanism of Jürgen Habermas Chapter Six: Theory and Practice: Science, Technology and the Republican University Chapter Seven: The Crisis of the Republic: 1960--1967 Chapter Eight: 1968 and its Aftermath Chapter Nine: The Structure of Discourse in the 1980s and 1990s Chapter Ten: History, Multiculturalism and the Non-German German Chapter Eleven: German Germans and the Old Nation Chapter Twelve: Political Theology and the Dissolution of the Underlying Structure Index