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Germany's New Right as Culture and Politics R. Woods

Germany's New Right as Culture and Politics By R. Woods

Germany's New Right as Culture and Politics by R. Woods

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This is the first full-length study in English of the New Right in Germany and it breaks new ground by considering the New Right as a political and a cultural movement. The book examines the often contradictory motives that feed into New Right political pronouncements and explores the cultural thinking that feeds into extreme political commitment.

Germany's New Right as Culture and Politics Summary

Germany's New Right as Culture and Politics by R. Woods

This is the first full-length study in English of the New Right in Germany and it breaks new ground by considering the New Right as a political and a cultural movement. The book examines the often contradictory motives that feed into New Right political pronouncements and explores the cultural thinking that feeds into extreme political commitment.

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'Woods has written a thought-provoking and informative account.' Peter Thompson, Modern Language Review

About R. Woods

ROGER WOODS is Professor of German at the University of Nottingham, UK. He has published on Ernst Junger, the Conservative Revolution in the Weimar Republic, opposition in the GDR under Honecker, problems of German Unification, East German intellectuals before and after Unification and he is currently working on 20th Century Germany Autobiography.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: What is the New Right? Definitions and their uses The significance of the New Right Chapter 2: From Cultural Hegemony to Cultural Pessimism New Right politics and the project of cultural hegemony Success and failure Feelgood culture or cultural pessimism? The politics of Modernity Conservative Revolution Restoring culture Multi-culturalism and German identity The external threat Internal collapse Chapter 3: A Cultural Interpretation of National Socialism Living in an era of fascism Relativising National Socialism The 'Other Germany' Chapter 4: Values and Programmes Nationalism: a simple commitment Externalisation and internalisation Nationalism as a spent force Nationalism as process Unacceptable alternatives A return to Christianity? Post-politics and the rediscovery of nature Instead of a New Right programme Conclusion: From Exemplary Thinkers of Modernity to Living without Absolutes

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NPB9780230506725
9780230506725
0230506720
Germany's New Right as Culture and Politics by R. Woods
R. Woods
New Perspectives in German Political Studies
New
Hardback
Palgrave Macmillan
2007-01-10
183
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