The Weimar Moment's evocative assault on closure and political reaction, its offering of democracy against the politics of narrow self-interest cloaked in nationalist appeals to Volk and "community"--or, as would be the case in Nazi Germany, "race"--cannot but appeal to us today. This appeal--its historical grounding and content, its complexities and tensions, its variegated expressions across the networks of power and thought--is the essential context of the present volume, whose basic premise is unhappiness with Hegel's remark that we learn no more from history than we cannot learn from it....
The Weimar Moment's evocative assault on closure and political reaction, its offering of democracy against the politics of narrow self-interest cloake...
A historical analysis of doctrines of constitutional law during the Weimar Republic. This book reveals the various facets of the constitutional struggles during the Weimar Republic. It is useful for historians, constitutional lawyers, students and scholars interested in the continuing problems of democracy and constitutionalism.
A historical analysis of doctrines of constitutional law during the Weimar Republic. This book reveals the various facets of the constitutional strugg...
