Description |
xiv, 188 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents |
From Bonn to Berlin -- There are alternatives! -- II: Interventions -- From power politics to cosmopolitan society -- A sort of logo of the free West -- The finger of blame: the Germans and their memorial -- III: Public representation and cultural memory -- Symbolic expression and ritual behavior: Ernst Cassirer and Arnold Gehlen revisited -- IV: Europe in transition -- Euroskepticism, market Europe, or a Europe of (world) citizens? -- Does Europe need a Constitution? -- V: A question of political theory -- Constitutional democracy--a paradoxical union of contradictory principles? -- VI: American pragmatism and German philosophy: three reviews -- John Dewey, The quest for certainty -- Richard Rorty, Achieving our country -- Robert Brandom, Making it explicit -- VII: Jerusalem, Athens, and Rome -- A conversation about God and the world |
Notes |
First published in German as Zeit der Übergänge: Frankfurt am Main : Suhrkamp, c2001 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
First published Frankfurt am Main : Suhrkamp, c2001 Under title Zeit der Übergänge |
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Translated from the original German |
Subject |
World politics -- 21st century.
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Social history -- 21st century.
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Democracy.
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SUBJECT |
Germany -- Politics and government -- 1990- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91000847
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Author |
Cronin, Ciaran (Ciaran P.)
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Pensky, Max, 1961-
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ISBN |
0745630103 |
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0745630111 paperback |
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