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German intellectuals and the challenge of democratic renewal : culture and politics after 1945 /
"This book examines how democracy was rethought in Germany in the wake of National Socialism, the Second World War and the Holocaust. Focusing on a diverse network of intellectual elites in the immediate postwar years, Professor Forner traces their attempts to reckon with the experience of Nazi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "This book examines how democracy was rethought in Germany in the wake of National Socialism, the Second World War and the Holocaust. Focusing on a diverse network of intellectual elites in the immediate postwar years, Professor Forner traces their attempts to reckon with the experience of Nazism and scour Germany's ambivalent political and cultural traditions for materials with which to build a better future. In doing so, he reveals how they formulated an internally variegated, but distinctly participatory vision of democratic renewal - a paradoxical counter-elitism of intellectual elites. Although their projects ran aground on internal tensions and on the Cold War, their commitments fuelled critique and dissent in both East and West Germany in the 1950s. The book uncovers a conception of political participation that went beyond the limited possibilities of the Cold War era and which would influence the political struggles of later decades in Germany and across the globe"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 383 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-373) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781316074282 1316074285 9781107279049 1107279046 9781316079027 1316079023 1316083748 9781316083741 1316057747 9781316057742 1316081389 9781316081389 1316076652 9781316076651 1107627834 9781107627833 1316071928 9781316071922 |