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This book follows postwar Germany's leading philosopher and social thinker, Jürgen Habermas, through four decades of political and constitutional struggle over the shape of liberal democracy in Germany. Habermas's most influential theories - of the public sphere, communicative action, and modernity - were decisively shaped by major West German political events: the failure to de-Nazify the judiciary, the rise of a powerful Constitutional Court, student rebellions in the late 1960s, the changing fortunes of the Social Democratic Party, NATO's decision to station nuclear weapons, and the unexpected collapse of East Germany. In turn, Habermas's writings on state, law, and constitution played a critical role in reorienting German political thought and culture to a progressive liberal-democratic model. Matthew Specter uniquely illuminates the interrelationship between the thinker and his culture.

Habermas, Jürgen. --- Habermas, Jürgen --- Habermas, Jürgen. --- Habermas, Jürgen --- Habŏmasŭ, Wirŭgen --- Habŏmasŭ --- Khabermas, I︠U︡. --- Khabermas, I︠U︡rgen --- Ha-pei-ma-ssu, Yu-erh-ken --- Habeimasi --- הברמאס, יורגן --- יורגן הברמס --- 哈贝马斯 --- Philosophers --- Arts and Humanities --- History --- Habermas, Jurgen.

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In The Atlantic Realists, intellectual historian Matthew Specter offers a boldly revisionist interpretation of "realism," a prevalent stance in post-WWII US foreign policy and public discourse and the dominant international relations theory during the Cold War. Challenging the common view of realism as a set of universally binding truths about international affairs, Specter argues that its major features emerged from a century-long dialogue between American and German intellectuals beginning in the late nineteenth century. Specter uncovers an "Atlantic realist" tradition of reflection on the prerogatives of empire and the nature of power politics conditioned by fin de siècle imperial competition, two world wars, the Holocaust, and the Cold War. Focusing on key figures in the evolution of realist thought, including Carl Schmitt, Hans Morgenthau, and Wilhelm Grewe, this book traces the development of the realist worldview over a century, dismantling myths about the national interest, Realpolitik, and the "art" of statesmanship.

Political realism --- Balance of power --- Imperialism --- International relations --- History --- Philosophy. --- Germany --- United States --- Foreign relations --- American exceptionalism. --- North Atlantic. --- Realpolitik. --- US foreign policy. --- great powers. --- international relations. --- power politics. --- restraint. --- world politics.