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"The West" is a central idea in German public discourse, yet
historians know surprisingly little about the evolution of the
concept. Contrary to common assumptions, this volume argues that
the German concept of the West was not born in the twentieth
century, but can be traced from a much earlier time. In the
nineteenth century, "the West" became associated with notions of
progress, liberty, civilization, and modernity. It signified the
future through the opposition to antonyms such as "Russia" and "the
East," and was deployed as a tool for forging German identities.
Examining the shifting meanings, political uses, and transnational
circulations of the idea of "the West" sheds new light on German
intellectual history from the post-Napoleonic era to the Cold War.
"The West" is a central idea in German public discourse, yet
historians know surprisingly little about the evolution of the
concept. Contrary to common assumptions, this volume argues that
the German concept of the West was not born in the twentieth
century, but can be traced from a much earlier time. In the
nineteenth century, "the West" became associated with notions of
progress, liberty, civilization, and modernity. It signified the
future through the opposition to antonyms such as "Russia" and "the
East," and was deployed as a tool for forging German identities.
Examining the shifting meanings, political uses, and transnational
circulations of the idea of "the West" sheds new light on German
intellectual history from the post-Napoleonic era to the Cold War.
National and transnational debates in Britain and Germany
surrounding the meaning of the word "conservative" continue to have
far-reaching political consequences. After 1945, even while the
term was an accepted part of the political vocabulary of Great
Britain, in the Federal Republic of Germany their young democracy
was conflicted due to anti-democratic instability. The Guardians of
Concepts analyzes the historical changes in the political languages
of conservatism in the United Kingdom and the Federal Republic of
Germany between 1945 and the early 1980s which plagued
intellectuals, politicians, and entire parties. As one of the most
difficult concepts in both the political and historiographical
vocabulary of the German language, conservatism's analysis takes a
linguistically focused path through comprehensive and transnational
connection of intellectual history with the history of politics,
which are subjects that are otherwise commonly addressed separately
from each other.
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