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Title: A BERLIN REPUBLIC
WRITINGS ON GERMANY
By: Jurgen Habermas, Steven Rendall (Trans), Peter Uwe Hobendahl
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 0745620442
ISBN 13: 9780745620442
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Publisher: POLITY PRESS
Pub. date: 1 December, 1997
Pages: 187
Description: aeo A new book by Habermas which examines recent German history and some of the political challenges facing Europe today aeo Addresses the legacy of anti--semitism both in Germany and throughout Europe aeo Develops an original argument for the growing significance of transnational and global democratic institutions.
Synopsis: A Berlin Republic brings together writings on the new, united Germany by one of their most original and trenchant commentators, Jurgen Habermas. Among other topics, he addresses the consequences of German history, the challenges and perils of the post--Wall era, and Germanya s place in contemporary Europe. Here, as in his earlier The Past as Future, Habermas emerges as an inspired analyst of contemporary German political and intellectual life. He repeatedly criticizes recent efforts by historical and political commentators to a normalizea and, in part, to understate the horrors of modern German history. He insists that 1945 -- not 1989 -- was the crucial turning point in German history, since it was then that West Germany decisively repudiated certain aspects of its cultural and political past (nationalism and antisemitism in particular) and turned towards Western Traditions of democracy: free and open discussion, and respect for the civil rights of all individuals. Similarly, Habermas deplores the renewal of nationalist sentiment in Germany and throughout Europe.Drawing upon his vast historical knowledge and contemporary insight, Habermas argues for heightened emphasis on trans--European and global democratic institutions -- institutions far better suited to meet the challenges (and dangers) of the next century.
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Publication: UK
Imprint: Polity Press
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