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... a variety of perspectives. On the one hand, fascism and National Socialism, with their disastrous consequences, indeed came to an abrupt end. Liberal democracy, A version of this article appeared as “Liberale Alternativen für die Krise der Demokratie: Der Nationalökonom Moritz Julius Bonn als...

..., and the Holocaust, as well as the fragility of liberal democracy in contemporary modern society. [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2025 by New German Critique, Inc. 2025 Ágnes Heller Budapest School Holocaust New Left liberal democracy Waldemar Bulira: From...

... discussions in the Russian Federation and in many senses became a mirror reflecting Russian policy changes and predicting the transformation of the failed liberal democracy into an authoritarian state. © 2017 by New German Critique, Inc. 2017 restitution trophy art Vladimir Putin References...

...Adi Armon During the Weimar years Leo Strauss was intellectually and spiritually close to streams of thought that were averse to liberalism, enlightenment, and democracy. Specifically, he was mostly influenced by Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, and Carl Schmitt. The political philosophy...

... ludicrous kind. Where there is a lack of political form and trust, significance runs riot in conspiracy theories, while it is drained from the institutions of liberal democracy. Blumenberg understood that even the most legitimate system needs to express its significance with the concision of a mythical...

... powerful criticism of the philosophy of the subject. What suffers from this unintended resurgence of the philosophy of the subject, in both its liberal and its republican variants, is the radical core of constitutional democracy itself. © 2017 by New German Critique, Inc. 2017 Jürgen Habermas...

... believes in the truth of a comprehensive political theology, its full reconciliation with modern liberal democracy cannot be expected.”1 John Gray’s Black Mass pro- ceeds on similar tracks, but from an opposite direction. The author diagnoses a contemporary apocalyptic mood and, simultaneously...

... in the value of liberal democracy.3 In fact, the opposite was the case; loyalty to Weimar formalism identified political moderation with a dual commitment to legal norms and sociopolitical anomaly. From this perspective, a crisis or catastro- phe was viewed as inevitable, and the question was how...

... of liberal democracy and market capitalism in the nineteenth century to a later stage of monopoly capitalism and welfare state. The public sphere developed from an almost ideal space of rational debate and deliberation, so the tale goes, to one shaped by mass political and cultural con- sumption via...

... of the impact of crisis, terror, and war on liberal democracy. World War I saw the truce among political parties and repressive policies against antiwar leftists. The Weimar Republic brought an unequal and inade- quate state and political party response to political violence from the left and right...

... but the previous existence of Italian communism itself, which deviated from the natural evolution of Europe toward liberal democracy and market economy—in other words, toward a Germany-led EU. And the remark of this young scholar contained an implicit assumption: the deutscher Sonderweg is over; Germany now...

... of the self in coming out of hate are implicit yet pivotal to the ethicopolitical life of subjects in post- fascist liberal democracy, the difficulties and ambiguities of his trajectory become a cipher for the uncompleted project of overcoming fascism, race hatred, and political violence...

..., which historians have largely ignored—Militant Democracy and Fundamental Rights—echoed the Weimar Constitution and the debates that had shaped Loewenstein’s political outlook. According to Loewenstein, all liberal democracies, from Czechoslovakia and Britain to France and the United States...

... of its influence at the DIK to reopen debates around the cultural legitimacy of certain Islamic practices, even though many of these had already been settled previously—by the judicial institutions that a liberal democracy such as Germany so prides itself on. 41 In other words, Muslims in Germany...

...-American, more clearly part of the Westernization of West German intellectual life, and thus more identified with the emergence of liberal democracy and the ideals of the European Enlightenment. In Adorno’s classic essay “Was bedeutet Aufarbeitung der Vergangenheit the abstractions of exile...

... are not simply atavistic throwbacks or capitalist reactions in an extreme mode. Nazism, fascism, Soviet totalitarianism, and American liberal democracy each represent alternative models of modernity, differing economic, cultural, and political responses to the challenges and crises of modernization. (Perhaps...

... Strauss: Philosopher and Heretic Consider fi rst the counterconcepts to political theology, over and against which it is explicitly or implicitly set in comparison. In contemporary arguments, there are two above all: political philosophy and liberal democracy (there is also a third—political ecology...

... spectrum. In similar vein, Max Pensky joins Adorno and Alexis de Tocqueville to trace the current authoritarian backlash to the depoliticizing potentials inherent in liberal democracy itself. 69 Remarkably, the problems highlighted by these scholars—the psychological effectiveness of populist...

...-1933 years of revolutionary fervor to the post-1933 regimes of coercion and persuasion, was held together by political identifications and their representation in fictional formats. At the end of the imagined transition from proletariat to workerdom stood the complete break with liberal democracy, its...

... not about democracy, as befitting the leader of a nation whose people were, polling indicated, still somewhat skeptical of liberal democracy.65 Instead, the CDU, drawing on the Rhenish heritage of its founders and elec- toral base, championed a specific social form organized around private prop- erty...