Neugründung auf alten Werten?

The relationship between conservative intellectuals and politics in post-war Germany is characterized by harmony and distance. In this work the reader will find a tableau of German “intellectual history” with sections concerning academia, journalists, ideologies, and international networks. In addition to the trends of restoration and modernization, it sheds light on the characteristics of an era which was as equally shaped by a harmonizing middle-class philosophy of common sense as it was by the escalating conflict between East and West. This dichotomy becomes clear in the minds and constellations of people who experienced that time, such as Arnold Bergstraesser, Carl J. Friedrich, Andreas Hermes, Max Horkheimer, Hans-Joachim von Merkatz and Matthias Walden, whose lives, works and effect are all presented in this volume. Not only are ideologies, such as anti-communism and anti-liberalism, and political party stances, referred to and analysed, but so are newspaper articles and documents from European associations (from the Centre Européen de Documentation et d’Information). A comparative outlook completes the book.

With contributions by:
Tobias Bartels, Peter Becker, Johannes Großmann, Magnus Klaue, Nils Lange, Sebastian Liebold, Martin Maier, Frank Schale and Martina Steber.