Displaying 1 of 1 1989 Format: Book Author: Habermas, Jürgen. Title: The new conservatism : cultural criticism and the historians' debate / Jürgen Habermas ; edited and translated by Shierry Weber Nicholsen ; introduction by Richard Wolin. Publisher, Date: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1989. Description: xxxv, 270 pages ; 24 cm Summary: Essays discuss denial of Germany's Nazi past, the rise of the neoconservative movement in Europe and America, and the welfare state. Series: Studies in contemporary German social thought Studies in contemporary German social thought. Subjects: Conservatism. Welfare state. Political culture. Politics and culture. Other Author: Nicholsen, Shierry Weber, editor, translator. Wolin, Richard, writer of introduction. Other Title: Works. Selections. English. 1989 Notes: 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. Contents: 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. LCCN: 89012437 ISBN: 0262081881 9780262081887 0745606792 9780745606798 9780262581073 0262581078 Other Number: 19981280 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 109888 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: 320.5 Habermas Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
