Germany's New Right as Culture and Politics is the first full-length study in English of the New Right in Germany and it breaks new ground by considering the New Right as both a political and a cultural movement. This approach reveals the problems that arise when a political movement seeks to embrace culture as the foundation for a political programme. The book examines the often contradictory motives that feed into New Right political pronouncements and explores the cultural thinking that feeds into extreme political commitment.
Author(s): Roger Woods
Edition: First Edition
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 240
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
Definitions and their uses......Page 18
The significance of the New Right......Page 29
New Right politics and the project of cultural hegemony......Page 36
Success and failure......Page 39
Feelgood culture or cultural pessimism?......Page 46
The politics of Modernity......Page 50
Conservative Revolution......Page 56
Restoring culture......Page 65
Multi-culturalism and German identity......Page 68
The external threat......Page 69
Internal collapse......Page 71
Living in the era of fascism......Page 76
Relativising National Socialism......Page 83
The 'Other Germany'......Page 93
Nationalism: a simple commitment?......Page 104
Externalisation and internalisation......Page 109
Nationalism as a spent force......Page 112
Nationalism as process......Page 118
Unacceptable alternatives......Page 121
A return to Christianity?......Page 124
Post-politics and the rediscovery of nature......Page 128
Instead of a New Right programme......Page 132
Cultural Modernity......Page 142
National Socialism and the fear of Modernity......Page 144
Modernity and the individual......Page 145
Inadequate solutions?......Page 146
Notes......Page 154
Bibliography......Page 182
H......Page 192
P......Page 193
Z......Page 194
