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Der Intellektuelle als Unruhestifter: Wolfgang Pohrt
Als Anfang der achtziger Jahre Wolfgang Pohrt die öffentliche Bühne betrat, wurde den Lesern schnell klar, dass da jemand einen neuen Ton anschlug. Pohrt verstand es, seine Thesen mit großer Schärfe, Klugheit und Eleganz zu formulieren. Seine Kritik an den Grünen und der Friedensbewegung ist legendär, vor allem, seit diese nationale Töne anschlugen und die Nation nicht mehr abschaffen, sondern retten wollten. In der Biographie wird daran erinnert, dass die Linke in Deutschland zwar versagt hat, aber dank Wolfgang Pohrt das Niveau der Kritik an ihr weit besser war, als sie es verdient hatte, man kann sagen, dass ein realistisches Bild von ihr nur deshalb erhalten geblieben ist, weil Pohrt sich ihrer Fehler und Eigenarten angenommen und damit die Mythenbildung erschwert hat. Mit seiner großen Massenbewusstseinsstudie der Deutschen und dem Konkret-Kongress 1993 kündigte sich sein Abschied an, aber noch heute macht sich sein Einfluss bemerkbar, als ob seine Gedanken wie ein schwacher unterirdischer Strom immer wieder einen Nerv treffen und eine Reaktion erzeugen.
Reappraisals
Reappraisals is a provocative account of the development of modern critical theory in Germany and the United States. Focusing on the period since World War II, Peter Uwe Hohendahl explores key debates on the function of critical theory, illuminating the diverse positions and alliances among the participants. Bringing together six essays, as well as new introductory and concluding chapters, Hohendahl interprets and subjects to critical scrutiny many of the central ideas of the Frankfurt School. He first maps the trajectory of neomarxist criticism in Germany to the 1980s. Individual chapters then focus on the work of Georg Lukacs, Theodor W. Adorno, and Jürgen Habermas, and on such issues as the politicization of German criticism after 1965 under the influence of the Frankfurt School.
Fools' Crusade
A discussion of the political illusion created by the humanitarian bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999 that tests popular beliefs
The Language of Silence
Focusing on individual authors from Heinrich Boll to Gunther Grass, Hermann Lenz to Peter Schneider, The Language of Silence offers an analysis of West German literature as it tries to come to terms with the Holocaust and its impact on postwar West German society. Exploring postwar literature as the barometer of Germany's unconsciously held values as well as of its professed conscience, Ernestine Schlant demonstrates that the confrontation with the Holocaust has shifted over the decades from repression, circumvention, and omission to an open acknowledgement of the crimes. Yet even today a 'language of silence' remains since the victims and their suffering are still overlooked and ignored. Learned and exacting, Schlant's study makes an important contribution to our understanding of postwar German culture.
From Hash Rebels to Urban Guerrillas
This book is not a nostalgic tribute to militants of a distant past, but a source of inspiration for revolutionary politics in a time that needs them as much as ever. In the early 1970s, across the Americas and Western Europe, armed groups emerged out of the social movements of the late 1960s. In Germany, the Red Army Faction received most attention, but a less well-known, antiauthoritarian counterpart operated in its shadows: the 2nd of June Movement, named after the date when, in 1967, a Berlin cop killed the unarmed student Benno Ohnesorg during a demonstration. The group was composed of working-class youth who got politicized in Berlin’s underground culture. They first emerged as a pol...
Divided Memory
A significant new look at the legacy of the Nazi regime, this book exposes the workings of past beliefs and political interests on how--and how differently--the two Germanys have recalled the crimes of Nazism, from the anti-Nazi emigration of the 1930s through the establishment of a day of remembrance for the victims of National Socialism in 1996.
The War in Our Backyard
The War in Our Backyard is a novel study of the German press' textual and visual coverage of the wars in Bosnia (1992–1995) and Kosovo (1998–1999). Key moments from both wars have been selected and analysed using a broad range of publications reaching from far-right to far-left and including broadsheets, a tabloid and a news magazine. Two sections with parallel chapters form the core of the book: the first part dealing with the war in Bosnia and the second with Kosovo. Each section contains one chapter on the initial phase of the conflict, one chapter on an important atrocity – namely the Srebrenica Massacre in Bosnia and the Račak incident in Kosovo – and, lastly, a chapter each on...
Shifting Memories
A long look at how contemporary Germany is remembering the Holocaust
The Historical Film
This aims to show how media critics and historians have written about history as portrayed in cinema and television by historical films and documentaries, focusing on what it means to "read" films historically and the colonial experience as shown in post-colonial film.
