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Sean A. Forner - German Intellectuals and the Challenge of Democratic Renewal: Culture and Politics after 1945 - 9781107627833 - V9781107627833
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German Intellectuals and the Challenge of Democratic Renewal: Culture and Politics after 1945

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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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
530g
Number of Pages
396
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107627833
SKU
V9781107627833
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About Sean A. Forner
Sean A. Forner is a historian of twentieth-century Europe and Germany interested in the intersections of intellectual history and the history of political culture. His primary focus is on post-war ideas and practices of democracy, especially in moments when debate and experimentation intensified (for example, around 1945, 1956, 1968 and 1989). He also has long-standing interests in memory and representation, ... Read more

Reviews for German Intellectuals and the Challenge of Democratic Renewal: Culture and Politics after 1945
'German Intellectuals and the Challenge of Democratic Renewal is fascinating, even revelatory. By bracketing the Cold War that soon supervened after World War II, Sean Forner recaptures how the world looked to contemporaries, and how many possibilities were seen to beckon.' Samuel Moyn, Harvard University, Massachusetts 'This book tells a gripping story about political regeneration in the immediate aftermath of ... Read more

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