
Sociability and Its Enemies
German Political Theory After 1945
Jakob Norberg(Author)
Northwestern University Press
Published on 31. January 2014
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-0-8101-2970-2 (ISBN)
Description
Sociability and Its Enemies contributes both to contemporary studies of political theory and to discourse on postwar Germany by reconstructing the arguments concerning the nature and value of sociability as a form of interaction and interconnection particular to modern bourgeois society. Jakob Norberg argues that the writings of Hannah Arendt, Juergen Habermas, Carl Schmitt, and the historian Reinhart Koselleck present conflicting responses to a hitherto neglected question or point of contention: whether bourgeois sociability should serve as a therapeutic practice and politically relevant ideal for postwar Germany. The book sheds light on previously neglected historical and conceptual connections among political theorists, and it enriches established narratives of postwar intellectual history.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Evanston
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
458 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8101-2970-2 (9780810129702)
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Person
Jakob Norberg is Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of German at Duke University, USA.