[PDF] Power And The Idealists Or The Passion Of Joschka Fischer And Its Aftermath eBook

Author : Paul Berman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 44,23 MB
Release : 2007-04-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0393352773

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The author of the best-selling Terror and Liberalism on the rise to power of the generation of 1968. The student uprisings of 1968 erupted not only in America but also across Europe, expressing a distinct generational attitude about politics, the corrupt nature of democratic capitalism, and the evil of military interventions. Yet, decades later, many in that radical generation had come into conventional positions of power: among them Bill Clinton (who reportedly stayed up all night reading this book) and Joschka Fischer, foreign minister of Germany. During a 1970s street protest, Fischer was photographed beating a cop to the ground; during the 1990s, he was supporting Clinton in a NATO-led military intervention in the Balkans. Here Paul Berman, "one of America's best exponents of recent intellectual history" (The Economist), masterfully traces the intellectual and moral evolution of an impassioned generation—and gives an acute analysis of what it means to go to war in the name of democracy and human rights.

Author : Paul Berman
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,42 MB
Release : 2004-06
Category : Politicians
ISBN : 9781932360417

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Described as 'One of America's best exponents of recent intellectual history' by The Economist, Berman uses the case of a famous - and notorious - German politician in a dazzling dissection of radical left politics then and now. In light of the international reactions to some photographs of Joschka in a fight published in 2001, noteably what the French newspaper Liberation called 'The Trial of the Generation of 68', he launches a crucial question for Western democracies today: was the violence-tinged radicalism in America and Europe in 1968 a force for social good or ill?

Author : Paul Berman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 45,11 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393316759

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Political journalist Paul Berman recounts four episodes in the history of a generation: student radicalism of the years around 1968; the birth of gay liberation and modern identity politics; the anti-Communist trajectory in the Eastern bloc; and the ideals and self-criticism of thinkers in America and in France, who debated the meaning of these events. A "New York Times" Notable Book.

Author : Paul Berman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 22,62 MB
Release : 2004-05-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780393325553

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He calls for a "new radicalism" and a "liberal American interventionism" to promote democratic values throughout the world - a vigorous new politics of American liberalism."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Juliane Lorenz
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,15 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781557832627

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This book is an attempt to trace and illuminate, through interviews with colleagues, friends, and contemporaries, different perspectives about Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Author : Paul Berman
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 37,66 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN :

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From the editor of Debating P.C. comes an impressive new anthology of essays and historical perspectives on the long, ambivalent, historically complex, and often volatile relationship between American Jews and African Americans. Contributors include James Baldwin, Cynthia Ozick, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Julius Lester, and others.

Author : Eleanor Davey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 22,80 MB
Release : 2015-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1107069580

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A major new study of the political and intellectual origins of modern humanitarianism from the 1950s to the 1980s.

Author : Jeffrey Herf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 22,38 MB
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1316720675

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Undeclared Wars with Israel examines a spectrum of antagonism by the East German government and West German radical leftist organizations - ranging from hostile propaganda and diplomacy to military support for Israel's Arab armed adversaries - from 1967 to the end of the Cold War in 1989. This period encompasses the Six-Day War (1967), the Yom Kippur War (1973), Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982, and an ongoing campaign of terrorism waged by the Palestine Liberation Organization against Israeli civilians. This book provides new insights into the West German radicals who collaborated in 'actions' with Palestinian terrorist groups, and confirms that East Germany, along with others in the Soviet Bloc, had a much greater impact on the conflict in the Middle East than has been generally known. A historian who has written extensively on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, Jeffrey Herf now offers a new chapter in this long, sad history.

Author : Peter Schneck
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,54 MB
Release : 2010-08-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1441113738

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In his novel Mao II, Don DeLillo lets his protagonist say, 'Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness.' DeLillo suggests that while the collective imagination of the past was guided by the creative order of narrative fictions, our contemporary fantasies and anxieties are directed by the endless narratives of war and terror relayed by the mass media. To take DeLillo's literary reflections on media, terrorism, and literature seriously means to engage with the ethical implications of his media critique. This book departs from existing works on DeLillo not only through its focus on the function of literature as public discourse in culture, but also in its decidedly transatlantic perspective. Bringing together prominent DeLillo scholars in Europe and in the US, it is the first critical book on DeLillo to position his work in a transatlantic context.

Author : Flemming Rose
Publisher : Cato Institute
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 13,44 MB
Release : 2016-05-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1944424237

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Journalists face constant intimidation. Whether it takes the extreme form of beheadings, death threats, government censorship or simply political correctness—it casts a shadow over their ability to tell a story. When the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published the cartoons of the prophet Muhammad nine years ago, Denmark found itself at the center of a global battle about the freedom of speech. The paper's culture editor, Flemming Rose, defended the decision to print the 12 drawings, and he quickly came to play a central part in the debate about the limitations to freedom of speech in the 21st century. In The Tyranny of Silence, Flemming Rose writes about the people and experiences that have influenced his understanding of the crisis, including meetings with dissidents from the former Soviet Union and ex-Muslims living in Europe. He provides a personal account of an event that has shaped the debate about what it means to be a citizen in a democracy and how to coexist in a world that is increasingly multicultural, multireligious, and multiethnic.