From the Conservative Revolution to Technocratic Conservatism

Laak, Dirk van

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“…As Dirk van Laak argues, 'young European conservatives […] set out for a "third way" between bourgeois liberalism and Bolshevik communism'. 27 Fascism was the most prominent alternative. In Italy, Mussolini defined fascism first and foremost in opposition to Marxism, liberalism and democracy.…”

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Third Ways Out of the Crisis of Liberalism: Moderation and Radicalism in Germany, 1880–1950

Haan

2019

The Politics of Moderation in Modern European History

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In his study of moderation in French political thought, A Virtue for Courageous Minds, Aurelian Craiutu sketches the long legacy of the politics of moderation, ranging from 'the juste milieu between revolution and reaction; Ordoliberalism (in post-war Germany); social democracy in Sweden as a middle ground between pure free market capitalism and state socialism; and the New Deal in the United States'. Among the more recent manifestations of movements following the principles of moderation, Craiutu finally also lists 'the doctrine of the "Third Way" (in the United Kingdom under Tony Blair)'. 1 This list is intriguing for a variety of reasons. First of all, it broadens the geographical scope of the tradition of political moderation beyond French post-Revolutionary political thought. Secondly, it suggests a shift from the field of opposing revolutionary and reactionary political movements, to a confrontation between opposing principles of economic organization-capitalism and socialism. Yet it also invites further discussion of the question to what

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Third Ways Out of the Crisis of Liberalism: Moderation and Radicalism in Germany, 1880–1950

Haan

2019

The Politics of Moderation in Modern European History

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“…For all the distinctions and tensions among them, these thinkers shared an emphasis on the integrative authority of superordinate institutions and rule by meritocratic elites, a top-down mode of social and political organization consonant with the "high modernist" tenor of the postwar period. 96 The alternative, bottom-up vision of the polity burst vividly onto the scene during the large-scale social and political ferment of the 1960s. The latter was carried most prominently by students but shaped also by a broader range of actors, including older academics and public intellectuals.…”

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The Promise of Publicness: Intellectual Elites and Participatory Politics in Postwar Heidelberg

Forner¹

2012

Mod. Intell. Hist.

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This essay explores how the experience of National Socialism provoked German intellectuals to rethink elitist conventions in politics. It focuses on three figures in the town of Heidelberg—Alexander Mitscherlich, Dolf Sternberger, and Alfred Weber—as well as on a journal (Die Wandlung) and a discussion forum (the Aktionsgruppe Heidelberg) that they established after 1945. Breaking with both mandarin and vanguardist traditions, they conceived a politics that neither transpired over the masses’ heads nor sought to organize them from above but rested on the people's participation from below. Moreover, a correspondence existed between their thinking on democracy and the grassroots, extra-institutional activities they pursued in an attempt to realize what they called “publicness” (Öffentlichkeit). Finally, the essay relates such immediate postwar ideas and practices to these intellectuals’ stances toward West Germany after 1949 as well as to the discussion on “publicness” that unfolded there, as exemplified in Jürgen Habermas's early work.

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1968, 1989, and the legacies of participation

Forner¹

2014

German Intellectuals and the Challenge of Democratic Renewal

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From the Conservative Revolution to Technocratic Conservatism

Cited by 8 publications

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Third Ways Out of the Crisis of Liberalism: Moderation and Radicalism in Germany, 1880–1950

Third Ways Out of the Crisis of Liberalism: Moderation and Radicalism in Germany, 1880–1950

The Promise of Publicness: Intellectual Elites and Participatory Politics in Postwar Heidelberg

1968, 1989, and the legacies of participation

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