The contributors of this volume seek to answer such questions as: 'How did the Germans overcome 'Germanic Ideology', or did they?' 'Why is there no libertarianism in Germany?' 'What do German conservatives wish to conserve?'. Emphasizing shared patterns of thought, the contributors trace the contours of political thought in a divided nation with a difficult past, and ion the shadow of the culture and political values of the United States.

Autorentext

JAN-WERNER MÜLLER is a Fellow in the Department of Political Science at All Souls College, University of Oxford.

Zusammenfassung
German Ideologies since 1945 explores the development of German political thought in the post-war period. The contributors analyze to what extent the much debated Westernization and Americanization of German political culture was reflected in or even driven by political thinkers. They also illuminate the complex ways in which older German traditions were abandoned or adapted to the situation after 1945, while Western traditions were appropriated (or misappropriated) to suit German needs. This volume is the first comprehensively to chart the paths of post-war conservatism and neo-conservatism; the first to make sense of the political thinking of the student rebels of 1968; and the first to analyze the development of distinctively German brands of civic republicanism and multiculturalism. The contributors also pay particular attention to the shifting cultural contexts and institutional bases of political thought, such as the peculiar German university culture and the world of intellectual magazines.

Inhalt

Introduction: Putting German Political Thought in Context; J.W.Müller PART 1: THE TRANSFORMATION OF GERMAN POLITICAL THOUGHT IN THE POST-WAR PERIOD Restoring the German Spirit: Humanism and Guilt in Post-War Germany; A.Rabinbach Normative Westernization?: The Impact of Remigres on the Formation of Political Thought in Post-War Germany; A.Söllner Habermas's Reconstruction of West German Law and the Sozialstaat Controversy; J.P.McCormick The Westernization of the Political Thought of the West German Labour Movement; J.Angster PART 2: CRITICAL THEORY AND THE LEGACIES OF 1968 Post-War Ideologies and the Body Politics of 1968; D.Herzog 1968 as Event, Milieu and Ideology; J.W.Müller PART 3: GERMAN CONSERVATISM: FROM TECHNOCRATIC CONSERVATISM TO THE NEW RIGHT From the Conservative Revolution to Technocratic Conservatism; D.van Laak German Neo-Conservatism, c.1968 to 1985: Hermann Lübbe and Others; J.Muller From National Identity to National Interest: The Rise (and Fall) of Germany's New Right; J.W.Müller PART 4: GERMAN REPUBLICANISM AND THE POLITICS OF RECOGNITION A Tolerant Republic; R.Forst The Many Faces of the Republic; W.A.Barbieri