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Author:   Richard Ned Lebow (King's College London) ,  Ludvig Norman (University of Stockholm)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.576kg
ISBN:  

9781009484343

ISBN 10:   1009484346
Pages:   286
Publication Date:   27 June 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Why Weimar? Richard Ned Lebow and Ludvig Norman; 2. An unheroic but understandable failure: German social democrats and the collapse of the Weimar Republic Douglas Webber; 3. Bonn's Weimar Peter C. Caldwell; 4. The paradigmatic example of Weimar and postwar political science: the case of Otto Kirchheimer Peter Breiner; 5. Swedish social democracy and Weimar: engineering the democratic population with the Myrdals Ludvig Norman; 6. Our past, Weimar's present: democracy's defense and the inversion of an historical lesson Amel Ahmed; 7. Weimar on the Potomac? Leo Strauss goes to Washington William E. Scheuerman; 8. Shadows of Babylon and shreds of artificial silk: cultural and political legacies in the contemporary television series 'Babylon Berlin' Jill Suzanne Smith; 9. Militant democracy: a (supposed) Weimar lesson revisited Jan-Werner Müller; 10. Weimar and modernity Richard Ned Lebow and Ludvig Norman.

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'Weimar's Long Shadow magnificently captures the relevance of Germany's first failed experiment in democracy for our own troubled times. The authors do not exaggerate the similarities. Rather, in essays that range from treatments of Strauss and Trumpian Straussians, to militant and social democracy, and the TV series Babylon Berlin, they illuminate concerns central to us now.' David Dyzenhaus, University Professor of Law and Philosophy, Toronto 'This stimulating book shows that Weimar is more than a negative model for the collapse of democratic regimes. It makes a strong case for using analogies as a fruitful device for a more careful consideration of the complexities of modernity. The case of Weimar therefore continues to be of great systematic value to both international historians and political scientists.' Wolfram Pyta, University Professor and Head of the Department of Modern History, University of Stuttgart 'As the paradigm of democratic fragility, the Weimar Republic has both sensitized and blinded thinkers to the dangers of later situations. Even as they anatomize the mechanisms that flatten analogy into 'lessons learned,' these essays exemplify a better use of history: open-ended engagement with cases to generate questions for the present.' Dorothy Noyes, The Ohio State University

Author Information

Richard Ned Lebow is Professor of International Political Theory, Emeritus at King's College London; Honorary Fellow of Pembroke College at the University of Cambridge and James O. Freedman Presidential Professor, Emeritus at Dartmouth College. Among his most recent books are The Quest for Knowledge in International Relations (Cambridge, 2022) and, co-edited with Ludvig Norman, Robustness and Fragility of Political Orders (Cambridge, 2022). He is a Fellow of the British Academy and the recipient of numerous book awards. Ludvig Norman is Associate Professor of Political Science at Stockholm University and Senior Fellow in the Institute of European Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent works include Dilemmas of European Democracy, co-edited with Niklas Bremberg (2023), Robustness and Fragility of Political Orders, co-edited with Richard Ned Lebow (Cambridge University Press, 2022), as well as many articles in journals including Democratization, European Journal of International Relations, Journal of Common Market Studies and Political Studies.

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