Weimar's long shadow:

Weimar casts a long shadow over post-war political thought. The Weimar Republic is used to understand contemporary threats to democracy and to critique or defend modernity. It has generated a series of political lessons that are invoked whenever democracies are challenged. This book questions the hi...

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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2024
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Summary:Weimar casts a long shadow over post-war political thought. The Weimar Republic is used to understand contemporary threats to democracy and to critique or defend modernity. It has generated a series of political lessons that are invoked whenever democracies are challenged. This book questions the historical validity of most of these lessons and their applicability to contemporary political orders. It shows how Weimar lessons are often influenced by partial and superficial readings of events, often intended to advance particular political projects. The chapters give detailed accounts of how so-called Weimar lessons have influenced, if not shaped, political debates in Germany, elsewhere in Europe, and the United States
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Why Weimar? / Richard Ned Lebow and Ludvig Norman -- An unheroic but understandable failure: German Social Democrats and the collapse of the Weimar Republic / Douglas Webber -- Bonn's Weimar / Peter C. Caldwell -- The paradigmatic example of Weimar and postwar political science: the case of Otto Kirchheimer / Peter Breiner -- Swedish Social Democracy and Weimar: engineering the democratic population with the Myrdals / Ludvig Norman -- Our past, Weimar's present: democracy's defense and the inversion of historical lesson / Amel Ahmed -- Weimar on the Potomac? Leo Strauss goes to Washington / William E. Scheuerman -- Shadows of Babylon and shreds of artificial silk : cultural and political legacies in the contemporary television series Babylon Berlin / Jill Suzanne Smith -- Militant Democracy : a (supposed) Weimar lesson revisited / Jan-Werner Müller -- Weimar and Modernity / Richard Ned Lebow and Ludvig Norman
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 272 Seiten)
ISBN:9781009484329
DOI:10.1017/9781009484329

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