Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 07:42:11 -0800
From: Eduardo Mendieta <mendietae-AT-usfca.edu>
Subject: HAB: Habermas the Public Intellectual


Dear List:

I want to thank the colleague who recommended the Mueller book. I read the
Habermas chapter already and it is excellent. He is critical, and points
out certain "contradictions" in Habermas political stance in Germany, but
overall it is extremely insightful. So, I recommend it highly.

The book in Question is Jan-Werner Mueller__Another Country: German
Intellectuals, Unification and National Identity__ (Yale UP, 2000)

One of the merits of Mueller's chapter is that it traces back to the early
fifties, and even earlier, the notion of constitutional patriotism.

I also want to recommend:

Chris Thornhill__Political Theory in Modern Germany: An Introduction
(Polity, 2000)

This has excellent chapters on Habermas, but also Luhmann, Schmitt, Weber,
and Neumann and Kirchheimer.







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