Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 11:22:18 -0600
Subject: Re: HAB: German Intellectuals, Unification & National Identity


I read a review by Mark Lilla of this book a few weeks ago in the Wall
Street Journal, which I wish I had saved or posted to the list.  I remember
it had two short paragraphs about Habermas and it also discussed Guenther
Grass.  Lilla described the book as saying that Habermas has been skeptical
about reunification, calling it an "Anschluss" (obviously a very loaded
term), and that Habermas is very critical about the degree to which real
democracies fall short of the ideal.  Anyway, that's all that is memorable
to me about this review.  --Vic


At 01:38 AM 11/3/00 +0000, you wrote:
>On Wednesday, November 1 Gary wrote:
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>
>>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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