Transformations of the New Germany

by R. Starkman (Editor)

Overview

This collection demonstrates the persistence of the initial anxieties about a united Germany and its rapid absorption of the German Democratic Republic, and also suggests a potential optimism that, despite much contemporary domestic disenchantment, the new Germany continues to thrive as a European democracy endeavouring to confront its past.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349530380
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	02/22/2006
Series:	Studies in European Culture and History
Edition description:	1st ed. 2006
Pages:	254
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

RUTH A. STARKMAN teaches political and social philosophy and ethics at the University of San Francisco. She lives in Mill Valley, USA.

Table of Contents

Forward; R.A.Berman Introduction; R.A.Starkman INTELLECTUALS AND GERMAN HISTORY Intellectuals, the 'Third Way', and German Unification; B.R.Wheeler The Rebirth of Tragedy, History, and German Identity; S.Brockmann Fear and Loathing after 9/11: German Intellectuals and the American-Debate; K.Scherpe 'Are the Towers Still Standing?': The Fall and Rise of the Literary Intellectual; A.Lewis MATERIAL CULTURE EAST AND WEST GDR Music: 'Revolution' to 'Reunification'; P.Simpson Spies, Shell Games, and Bananas: Everyday Symbols and Metaphors in the Process of Cultural Integration of East and West Germany; G.Korff East German Visual Culture: Beyond Ostalgie; M.Blum GERMANY AND ITS MINORITIES Aussiedler and Auslander: Transforming German National Identity; N.Raethzel Immigration and Citizenship in 'Berlin Republic' 1990-2002; H.Kurthen (Re)constructing Community in Berlin: Turks, Jews, and German Responsibility; J.Laurence Perpetual Impossibility?: Normalization of German-Jewish Relations in the Berlin Republic; R.A.Starkman