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Habermas, Jürgen.

The new conservatism : cultural criticism and the historians' debate / Jürgen Habermas ; edited and translated by Shierry Weber Nicholsen ; introduction by Richard Wolin.

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1989.

xxxv, 270 pages ; 24 cm

Essays discuss denial of Germany's Nazi past, the rise of the neoconservative movement in Europe and America, and the welfare state.

Studies in contemporary German social thought

Studies in contemporary German social thought.

Conservatism.

Welfare state.

Political culture.

Politics and culture.

Nicholsen, Shierry Weber, editor, translator.

Wolin, Richard, writer of introduction.

Works. Selections. English. 1989

Essays and interviews previously published in German, many of which were taken from Habermas' Kleine politische Schriften V and VI, ©1985, 1987.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Neoconservatism -- Modern and postmodern architecture -- Neoconservative cultural criticism in the United States and West Germany -- 2. The new obscurity: the crisis of the welfare state and the exhaustion of utopian energies -- 3. Heinrich Heine and the role of the intellectual in Germany -- 4. The idea of the university: learning processes -- 5. The horrors of autonomy: Carl Schmitt in English -- 6. Work and Weltanschauung: the Heidegger controversy from a German perspective -- 7. Taking aim at the heart of the present: on Foucault's lecture on Kant's "What is enlightenment" -- 8. Culture and politics -- Political culture in Germany since 1968: an interview with Dr. Rainer Erd for the Frankfurter Rundschau -- The new intimacy between culture and politics: theses on enlightenment in Germany -- 9. A kind of settling of damages -- Remarks from the Römerberg Colloquium -- Apologetic tendencies -- On the public use of history -- Closing remarks -- 10. Historical consciousness and post-traditional identity: the Federal Republic's orientation to the West -- Index.

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