German Intellectuals and the Nazi Past

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Dedication......Page 4
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Acknowledgments......Page 9
Introduction......Page 13
A Political Consensus......Page 17
Intellectuals and Memory......Page 21
1 Stigma and Structure in German Memory......Page 27
Dialogue across the Divide?......Page 29
The Exhaustion of Secular Vocabulary......Page 31
Stigma......Page 36
Stigma and the Origins of Structured Memory......Page 39
The Underlying Structure of Political Emotions......Page 43
2 The Languages of Republicanism and West German Political Generations......Page 50
Republican Sensibilities......Page 53
The Weimar Syndrome and the Discursive Refoundation of the Republic......Page 59
Intellectual Generations......Page 62
3 The Forty-fivers: A Generation between Fascism and Democracy......Page 67
A Conformist Generation?......Page 70
An Intellectual Revolution......Page 77
The Structure of Political Emotions......Page 81
A Republican Consensus......Page 84
4 The German German: The Integrative Republicanism of Wilhelm Hennis......Page 86
University Studies and Intellectual Influences......Page 89
The Early Writings......Page 98
The Dissertation......Page 101
Politics as Practical Philosophy......Page 107
The Theory of Representative Democracy......Page 109
The Nazi Past and the Dilemma of Integrative Republicanism......Page 114
5 The Non-German German: The Redemptive Republicanism of Jurgen Habermas......Page 117
Jurgen Habermas’s Non-German Germanism......Page 119
A Moral Renewal?......Page 121
The United States, the Cold War, Anticommunism, and Rearmament......Page 124
“Submission to the Higher”......Page 127
The Incubus of Technology and German Tradition......Page 133
A New Cultural Ideology......Page 136
Either-Or: Another Republican Crisis......Page 140
6 Theory and Practice: Science, Technology, and the Republican University......Page 143
The Humboldt Model and Modernity......Page 145
Habermas and the Technocratic University......Page 153
Technocratic University Reform......Page 167
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The Crisis of the Republic, 1960–1967......Page 172
The Intellectuals and Republican Resistance, 1959–1962......Page 174
Liberal Critiques......Page 178
The Spiegel Affair and the Conservative Backlash, 1962–1965......Page 184
The Coming Crisis, 1965–1967......Page 194
8 1968 and Its Aftermath......Page 198
The Forty-fivers and the Sixty-eighters......Page 201
The Dogmatization of the Student Movement......Page 210
The Liberal-Conservative Rapprochement:
The Origins of Neoconservatism......Page 213
Victory of the Redemptive Republicans?......Page 215
The Bund Freiheit der Wissenschaft......Page 217
Educating Non-German Germans: The High School
Curriculum Reform Controversy......Page 221
Terrorism and the “Unintended Consequences” of Critique......Page 224
The “German Autumn” of 1977......Page 229
9 The Structure of Discourse in the 1980s and 1990s......Page 231
An Ethnic Nation......Page 234
A Multicultural Society?......Page 238
10 History, Multiculturalism, and the Non-German German......Page 241
Reinscribing Stigma......Page 242
Multiculturalism for a Postnational Germany......Page 247
A Non-Identity Identity......Page 249
Sacrifice and Redemption......Page 251
11 German Germans and the Old Nation......Page 258
Rejecting Stigma......Page 259
Dramatizing the German German......Page 266
Contesting Sacrifice......Page 275
Pride and Stigma......Page 278
Anamnestic and Amnesiac Memory......Page 282
Trusting Germans?......Page 292
Index......Page 297