Germany's New Right as Culture and Politics

ROGER WOODS is Professor of German at the University of Nottingham, UK. He has published on Ernst Jnnger, the Conservative Revolution in the Weimar Republic, opposition in the GDR under Honecker, problems of German Unification, East German intellectuals before and after Unification and he is currently working on 20th Century Germany Autobiography.

'Woods has written a thought-provoking and informative account.' Peter Thompson, Modern Language Review

• Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: What is the New Right? Definitions and their uses The significance of the New Right Chapter 2: From Cultural Hegemony to Cultural Pessimism New Right politics and the project of cultural hegemony Success and failure Feelgood culture or cultural pessimism? The politics of Modernity Conservative Revolution Restoring culture Multi-culturalism and German identity The external threat Internal collapse Chapter 3: A Cultural Interpretation of National Socialism Living in an era of fascism Relativising National Socialism The 'Other Germany' Chapter 4: Values and Programmes Nationalism: a simple commitment Externalisation and internalisation Nationalism as a spent force Nationalism as process Unacceptable alternatives A return to Christianity? Post-politics and the rediscovery of nature Instead of a New Right programme Conclusion: From Exemplary Thinkers of Modernity to Living without Absolutes