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West Germans Against The WestEpilogue: ‘1968’ and ‘America’

West Germans Against The West: Epilogue: ‘1968’ and ‘America’ [Much of this book has been concerned with right-wing anti-Americanism, although this study has shown that some of the initially right-wing and often Weimar Conservative discourse reached well into the political centre, sometimes taking in Social Democrats, Social-Liberals and liberal-leaning Christian Democrats. Previous chapters were mainly concerned with the ‘long 1950s’, and the thorough archival research conducted for this study has not unearthed much evidence for genuinely left-wing anti-Americanism in that period. General historiography agrees that ‘[t]he German left [in the FRG] did not enter the debate over the rapid spread of American popular culture until the 1960s’.1 Nor was the Left prominent in many other genres of anti-American discourse analysed here. Some overlaps between Schmittian thought and neo-Marxist — especially Frankfurt School — rejections of liberal democracy were obvious, but these were not primarily an attempt to deploy ‘America’ as a smokescreen on which the alleged deficiencies in modern West Germany were projected.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

West Germans Against The WestEpilogue: ‘1968’ and ‘America’

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2010
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978-1-349-31200-9
Pages
179 –182
DOI
10.1057/9780230251410_6
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Abstract

[Much of this book has been concerned with right-wing anti-Americanism, although this study has shown that some of the initially right-wing and often Weimar Conservative discourse reached well into the political centre, sometimes taking in Social Democrats, Social-Liberals and liberal-leaning Christian Democrats. Previous chapters were mainly concerned with the ‘long 1950s’, and the thorough archival research conducted for this study has not unearthed much evidence for genuinely left-wing anti-Americanism in that period. General historiography agrees that ‘[t]he German left [in the FRG] did not enter the debate over the rapid spread of American popular culture until the 1960s’.1 Nor was the Left prominent in many other genres of anti-American discourse analysed here. Some overlaps between Schmittian thought and neo-Marxist — especially Frankfurt School — rejections of liberal democracy were obvious, but these were not primarily an attempt to deploy ‘America’ as a smokescreen on which the alleged deficiencies in modern West Germany were projected.]

Published: Nov 29, 2015

Keywords: Family Meal; Political Centre; Archival Research; Frankfurt School; Weimar Republic

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