Germany's New Right as Culture and Politics Culture and Politics

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Thsi is the first full-length English-language study of the New Right in Germany as both a political and a cultural movement.

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Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
What is the New Right?	p. 7
Definitions and their uses	p. 7
The significance of the New Right	p. 18
From Cultural Hegemony to Cultural Pessimism	p. 25
New Right politics and the project of cultural hegemony	p. 25
Success and failure	p. 28
Feelgood culture or cultural pessimism?	p. 35
The politics of Modernity	p. 39
Conservative Revolution	p. 45
Restoring culture	p. 54
Multi-culturalism and German identity	p. 57
The external threat	p. 58
Internal collapse	p. 60
A Cultural Interpretation of National Socialism	p. 65
Living in the era of fascism	p. 65
Relativising National Socialism	p. 72
The 'Other Germany'	p. 82
Values and Programmes	p. 93
Nationalism: a simple commitment?	p. 93
Externalisation and internalisation	p. 98
Nationalism as a spent force	p. 101
Nationalism as process	p. 107
Unacceptable alternatives	p. 110
A return to Christianity?	p. 113
Post-politics and the rediscovery of nature	p. 117
Instead of a New Right programme	p. 121
Conclusion: From Exemplary Thinkers of Modernity to Living without Absolutes	p. 131
Cultural Modernity	p. 131
National Socialism and the fear of Modernity	p. 133
Modernity and the individual	p. 134
Inadequate solutions?	p. 135
Notes	p. 143
Bibliography	p. 171
Index	p. 181
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