Book contents
- Weimar’s Long Shadow
- Weimar’s Long Shadow
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Note on Bauhaus Font and the Cover Design
- 1 Why Weimar?
- 2 An Unheroic but Understandable Failure
- 3 Bonn’s Weimar
- 4 The Paradigmatic Example of Weimar and Postwar Political Science
- 5 Swedish Social Democracy and Weimar
- 6 Our Past, Weimar’s Present
- 7 Weimar on the Potomac?
- 8 Shadows of Babylon and Shreds of Artificial Silk
- 9 Militant Democracy
- 10 Weimar and Modernity
- Index
10 - Weimar and Modernity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 September 2024
Book contents
- Weimar’s Long Shadow
- Weimar’s Long Shadow
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Note on Bauhaus Font and the Cover Design
- 1 Why Weimar?
- 2 An Unheroic but Understandable Failure
- 3 Bonn’s Weimar
- 4 The Paradigmatic Example of Weimar and Postwar Political Science
- 5 Swedish Social Democracy and Weimar
- 6 Our Past, Weimar’s Present
- 7 Weimar on the Potomac?
- 8 Shadows of Babylon and Shreds of Artificial Silk
- 9 Militant Democracy
- 10 Weimar and Modernity
- Index
Summary
In this concluding chapter, the authors summarize the findings of the volume’s contributions and further develop the notion of the Weimar analogy as providing central clues about conceptions of modernity in the postwar era. It further emphasizes the multiple ways in which Weimar has been mobilized in different contexts, how it has worked as a cultural symbol, and why it has had such a profound impact on postwar political thinking in the West. The chapter, finally, expands on what we may take away from the studies in this volume for a more general understanding of the role of analogies and historical lessons for political thought.
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- Weimar's Long Shadow , pp. 241 - 267Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024