Stigma and structure in German memory -- The languages of republicanism and West German political generations -- The forty-fivers : a generation between fascism and democracy -- The German German : the integrative republicanism of Wilhelm Hennis -- The non-German German : the redemptive republicanism of Jürgen Habermas -- Theory and practice : science, technology, and the republican university -- The crisis of the republic, 1960-1967 -- 1968 and its aftermath -- The structure of discourse in the 1980s and the 1990s -- History, multiculturalism, and the non-German German -- German Germans and the old nation -- Political theology and the dissolution of the underlying structure
Summary
West German intellectuals have debated the Nazi past and democratic future of their country in increasingly polarized arguments
