European Self-Reflection between Politics and Religion: The Crisis of Europe in the Twentieth Century

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-21
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
Italian Intellectuals and the European View: Croce, Nitti and Chabod between Dictatorship and Democracy....Pages 25-43
Europe between Democracy and Fascism: Hermann Heller on Fascism as a Threat to Europe and Democracy as a Community of Values....Pages 44-57
Reconstruction or Decline? The Concept of Europe and Its Political Implications in the Works of Ernst Troeltsch and Oswald Spengler....Pages 58-79
A Long and Winding Road: An International Perspective on the Fall and Rise of Democracy in Spain in the Twentieth Century....Pages 80-92
Front Matter....Pages 93-93
Theology as Language of Crisis: Karl Barth’s Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans....Pages 95-111
Martin Heidegger — A Protestant Church Father of the Twentieth Century? The Early Heidegger’s Phenomenology of Religion and the Crisis of Western Culture....Pages 112-137
The Heritage from Athens and Galilee: Secular Democracy as a Lutheran Response to the European Crisis....Pages 138-157
Religion and Secular Modernity: A Historical Perspective on the Ratzinger-Habermas Encounter, 19 January 2004....Pages 158-189
Front Matter....Pages 191-191
A Post-Post-Liberal Order: How Western Europe Emerged from Its Thirty-Year Crisis....Pages 193-212
Bombing beyond Democracy: Remembering the Ruins of Europe....Pages 213-226
Reinterpreting the European Heritage since 1989: Culture as a Conflict of Interpretations....Pages 227-245
Back Matter....Pages 246-247