This collection demonstrates the persistence of the initial anxieties about a united Germany and its rapid absorption of the German Democratic Republic, and also suggests a potential optimism that, despite much contemporary domestic disenchantment, the new Germany continues to thrive as a European democracy endeavouring to confront its past.

Autorentext
RUTH A. STARKMAN teaches political and social philosophy and ethics at the University of San Francisco. She lives in Mill Valley, USA.

Inhalt
Forward; R.A.Berman Introduction; R.A.Starkman INTELLECTUALS AND GERMAN HISTORY Intellectuals, the 'Third Way', and German Unification; B.R.Wheeler The Rebirth of Tragedy, History, and German Identity; S.Brockmann Fear and Loathing after 9/11: German Intellectuals and the American-Debate; K.Scherpe 'Are the Towers Still Standing?': The Fall and Rise of the Literary Intellectual; A.Lewis MATERIAL CULTURE EAST AND WEST GDR Music: 'Revolution' to 'Reunification'; P.Simpson Spies, Shell Games, and Bananas: Everyday Symbols and Metaphors in the Process of Cultural Integration of East and West Germany; G.Korff East German Visual Culture: Beyond Ostalgie; M.Blum GERMANY AND ITS MINORITIES Aussiedler and Auslander: Transforming German National Identity; N.Raethzel Immigration and Citizenship in 'Berlin Republic' 1990-2002; H.Kurthen (Re)constructing Community in Berlin: Turks, Jews, and German Responsibility; J.Laurence Perpetual Impossibility?: Normalization of German-Jewish Relations in the Berlin Republic; R.A.Starkman