German Intellectuals and the Nazi Past

Dirk Moses studied history in Australia, Scotland, the United States and Germany before joining the History Department at the University of Sydney in 2000. As a research fellow at the University of Freiburg, he worked on postwar German debates about the recent past, a project which became German Intellectuals and the Nazi Past. He has edited and co-edited four anthologies on genocide, mainly on the relationship with colonialism. He has held fellowships in Austria, Germany, Israel and the USA, most recently at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. Currently, he is Professor of Global and Colonial History at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, where he is finishing a book manuscript entitled Genocide and the Terror of History. He is also working on a project called 'The Diplomacy of Genocide', which studies international reactions to allegations of genocide in postcolonial conflicts in the 1960s and 1970s.

'All research on the intellectual history of the Federal Republic will find trustworthy orientation in this book.' History

• 1. Stigma and structure in German memory; 2. The languages of republicanism and West German political generations; 3. The Forty-Fivers: a generation between fascism and democracy; 4. The German German - the integrative republicanism of Wilhelm Hennis; 5. The non-German German - the redemptive republicanism of Jurgen Habermas; 6. Theory and practice: science, technology, and the republican university; 7. The crisis of the republic: 1960–7; 8. 1967 and its aftermath; 9. The structure of discourse in the 1980s and 1990s; 10. History, multiculturalism, and the non-German German; 11. German Germans and the old nation; 12. Political theology and the dissolution of the underlying structure.