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Sociability and Its Enemies: German Political Theory After 1945
Jakob Norberg
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 161 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
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, Jürgen 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 ... Read more
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, Jürgen 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810129702
SKU
V9780810129702
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About Jakob Norberg
Jakob Norberg is Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of German at Duke University, USA.
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