
Reflections on America
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While traveling, studying and working in the US, all threeconstantly looked back to their European origins, trying todecipher from their American experience what the future may holdfor Europe, be it for better or worse. Alexis de Tocqueville, theFrench aristocrat, observed the functioning of American democracywith a mix of admiration, envy and deep concerns about the fate ofliberty in the 'democratic age'. Max Weber, the Germansociologist, reported enthusiastically about the youthful energy hefound in the United States, which, however, he saw as graduallysuccumbing to the stifling tendencies of Europeanbureaucratization. Theodor W. Adorno, the critical theorist andrefugee from Nazi Germany, observed with a sense of despair theworkings of the American 'culture industry' which heequated to the totalitarian experience of Europe, only to switch toa much more favorable picture upon his return to Germany.
Europe and the US are conventionally assumed to share the sametrajectory and develop according to some common pattern of'occidental rationalism', with the observed differencesresulting from mere lags and relative advances on one side or theother. In this insightful book, Offe questions the relevance ofthis paradigm to transatlantic relations today.
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Translated by P. Camiller
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II. Alexis de Tocqueville or the Tyranny of the Middle Class
III. Max Weber: American Escape Routes from the Iron Cage
IV. Theodor W. Adorno: 'Culture Industry' and Other Views of the 'American Century'
V. The United States in the Twenty-First Century: Traditions of Religions Socialization and Struggle against 'Evil'
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