What Is Left

The situation of social scientists in the new federal states in 1991 is both fascinating and depressing at the same time. Who of them had not earlier longed to be able to write freely, without restrictions, liberated from a language in which original thought had to be concealed instead of acclaimed? How much we would have liked to be able to discuss openly the labor movement, socialism, and history. The old constraints are now gone. But not only that. The post-Cold War world, the process of transformation, and the task of catching up—innovatively and not merely by copying the old Federal Republic—constitute a new and broader challenge to the social sciences. Science and technology must also be approached more critically, since the ability to control this process overall declines rapidly as the number of particular innovations grows. All the evidence is that the social sciences may expect to boom in the coming years

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• Citizenship and immigration

  A Favell•New Community•1997

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• Left-wing authoritarianism is not a myth, but a worrisome reality. Evidence from 13 Eastern European countries

  Open Access•Sabrina De Regt, Dimitri Mortelmans et al.•Communist and Post-Communist…•2011

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• Veni, vidi, vici

  Tony Simoes Da Silva•Canadian Journal of African…•2014

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• Epilogue

  Open Access•Steven Luke, Steven Lukes•Cambridge history of twentieth-cent…•2003

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• Catching up with things? Environmental sociology and the material turn in social theory

  Luigi Pellizzoni•Environmental Sociology•2016

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• The democratic ideology of right–left and public reason in relation to Rawls's political liberalism

  Torben Bech Dyrberg•Critical Review of International…•2005

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