Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 01:38:51 +0000
Subject: Re: HAB: German Intellectuals, Unification & National Identity


On Wednesday, November 1 Gary wrote:


>My subject line is the subtitle of a recent book from Yale University
>Press: _Another Country: German Intellectuals...., by Jan-Werner
>Mller.
>
>This is an historical study of German public intellectuals after
>WWII, with special focus on the 1990s and the countervoices of Gnter
>Grass and Habermas. It includes a long chapter on Habermas's role as
>public intellectual--the "occasional" Habermas--from the 1960s
>through the late 1990s, among chapters that cover a range of voices.


Thanks for the reference. I am particularly interested in the chapter on
Habermas as public intellectual. This was also the central context of an
article I have coming out in the intellectual history journal, European
Legacy, in June 2001. In the article I foucs on Habermas's public
intellectual activities as an influential factor in his debate with the
French postmodernists. Have you read the book, Gary? Do you have any more
publication details?

Again, thanks for the heads up about this new book.

Alex

Alex Benchimol
Department of English Literature
Graduate School of Arts and Humanities
University of Glasgow
GLASGOW G12 8QQ
SCOTLAND (UK)
E-mail: 9317601b-AT-student.gla.ac.uk




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