German Intellectuals and the Challenge of Democratic Renewal

2017-03-23 History

Author : Sean A. Forner
Release : 2017-03-23
Genre : History
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Download or read book German Intellectuals and the Challenge of Democratic Renewal written by Sean A. Forner. This book was released on 2017-03-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how democracy was rethought in Germany in the wake of National Socialism, the Second World War, and the Holocaust. Focusing on a loose network of public intellectuals in the immediate postwar years, Sean Forner traces their attempts to reckon with the experience of Nazism and scour Germany's ambivalent political and cultural traditions for materials with which to build a better future. In doing so, he reveals, they formulated an internally variegated but distinctly participatory vision of democratic renewal - a paradoxical counter-elitism of intellectual elites. Although their projects ran aground on internal tensions and on the Cold War, their commitments fueled critique and dissent in the two postwar Germanys during the 1950s and thereafter. The book uncovers a conception of political participation that went beyond the limited possibilities of the Cold War era and influenced the political struggles of later decades in both East and West.

German Intellectuals and the Challenge of Democratic Renewal

2014 Democracy

Author : Sean Forner
Release : 2014
Genre : Democracy
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Download or read book German Intellectuals and the Challenge of Democratic Renewal written by Sean Forner. This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book examines how democracy was rethought in Germany in the wake of National Socialism, the Second World War and the Holocaust. Focusing on a diverse network of intellectual elites in the immediate postwar years, Professor Forner traces their attempts to reckon with the experience of Nazism and scour Germany's ambivalent political and cultural traditions for materials with which to build a better future. In doing so, he reveals how they formulated an internally variegated, but distinctly participatory vision of democratic renewal - a paradoxical counter-elitism of intellectual elites. Although their projects ran aground on internal tensions and on the Cold War, their commitments fuelled critique and dissent in both East and West Germany in the 1950s. The book uncovers a conception of political participation that went beyond the limited possibilities of the Cold War era and which would influence the political struggles of later decades in Germany and across the globe"--

The Intellectual Origins of the German Model: Rethinking Democracy in the Bonn Republic

2016

Author : Aline-Florence Manent
Release : 2016
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Download or read book The Intellectual Origins of the German Model: Rethinking Democracy in the Bonn Republic written by Aline-Florence Manent. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation reconstructs how the West German intellectual and political establishment envisioned the conditions for democratic renewal in the early decades of the Federal Republic of Germany. I examine how theoreticians as well as actors with practical engagements in economics, law, and politics experienced the problem of democratic reconstruction and what solutions they proposed. I argue that many of the defining--and now often lauded--features of the Federal Republic's political and socio-economic model were forged within the establishment's concern for stability and social peace. This intellectual and political sensitivity underlies a distinctive understanding of democratic governance primarily concerned with countering the alienating effects of mass democracy and the market economy so that individuals might come to feel at home in their polity. I reconstruct how this concern informed proposals for administrative and territorial reform intended to foster civic belonging through local self-government, conceptions of industrial democracy and corporate governance, or justifications for the place of religion in a modern democracy.

Antifascist Humanism and the Politics of Cultural Renewal in Germany

2017-07-14 History

Author : Andreas Agocs
Release : 2017-07-14
Genre : History
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Download or read book Antifascist Humanism and the Politics of Cultural Renewal in Germany written by Andreas Agocs. This book was released on 2017-07-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antifascism is usually described as either a political ideology of activists and intellectuals confronting the dictatorships of Hitler and Mussolini, or as a cynical tool that justified the Stalinist expansion of communism in Europe. Andreas Agocs widens our understanding of antifascism by placing it in the context of twentieth-century movements of 'cultural renewal'. He explores the concept of 'antifascist humanism', the attempt by communist and liberal intellectuals and artists to heal the divisions of Nazism by reviving the 'other Germany' of classical Weimar. This project took intellectual shape in German exile communities in Europe and Latin America during World War II and found its institutional embodiment in the Cultural League for Democratic Renewal in Soviet-occupied Berlin in 1945. During the emerging Cold War, antifascist humanism's uneasy blend of twentieth-century mass politics and cultural nationalism became the focal point of new divisions in occupied Germany and the early German Democratic Republic. This study traces German traditions of cultural renewal from their beginnings in antifascist activism to their failure in the emerging Cold War.

The Arts of Democratization

2022-02-07 History

Author : Jennifer M. Kapczynski
Release : 2022-02-07
Genre : History
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Download or read book The Arts of Democratization written by Jennifer M. Kapczynski. This book was released on 2022-02-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How postwar West German democracy was styled through word, image, sound, performance, and gathering

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