Sean A Forner
Biographic Data
| ID | 1140740 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sean A Forner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sean A |
| FAMILY NAME | Forner |
| SIGNATURE | FORNER S A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Demokratisierung nach Auschwitz
Andreas Agocs. Antifascist Humanism and the Politics of Cultural Renewal in Germany
In Antifascist Humanism and the Politics of Cultural Renewal in Germany, Andreas Agocs has written an empirically focused, analytically wide-ranging study of the Cultural League for the Democratic Renewal of Germany (Kulturbund), a self-consciously antifascist organization that surfaced amid the ruins of Nazism in 1945. In its politically pluralist composition and its invocation of culture as a resource for regeneration, it was little different f…
Greening Democracy
Germany’s ‘old’ Federal Republic is well known for its vibrant environmental movement and the successful Green Party that issued from it. Stephen Milder’s impressive new book seeks to recast our understanding of this history on multiple fronts. He breaks not only with conventional narratives that explain 1970s environmentalism by way of elite ideas and international organizations but also with social movement research confined to a national frame…
German Intellectuals and the Challenge of Democratic Renewal
This book examines how democracy was rethought in Germany in the wake of National Socialism, the Second World War, and the Holocaust. Focusing on a loose network of public intellectuals in the immediate postwar years, Sean Forner traces their attempts to reckon with the experience of Nazism and scour Germany's ambivalent political and cultural traditions for materials with which to build a better future. In doing so, he reveals, they formulated a…
Reconsidering the 'Unpolitical German
A long-standing thesis has it that modern Germany’s educated bourgeoisie identified with cultural ideals to the detriment of its political formation. Fixated on the realm of ideas, the ‘unpolitical German’ deferred to real-world authority, paving the road to National Socialism. While émigré scholars gave an influential version of this diagnosis, parallel concerns shaped debates within occupied Germany. On its unsettled political-cultural field, e…
The Promise of Publicness
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 …
The Frankfurt School in Exile
There is more to be learned about Frankfurt's prewar Institute for Social Research and the adventures of its Nazi-era exile, as a new book by Thomas Wheatland demonstrates. Wheatland situates his work primarily in relation to the classic histories by Martin Jay and Rolf Wiggershaus, which says at once too little and too much. It shares with them a methodological sensibility and a critically sympathetic disposition, but it is different in scope an…
Für eine demokratische Erneuerung Deutschlands
In the public sphere of occupied Germany, questions of "democracy" and its renewal after National Socialism were much debated. While existing literature on postwar political culture emphasizes dynamics of restoration and assimilation, this article focuses on a more innovative and independent development: the vision of democratic renewal formulated by a diverse group of journalists and intellectuals referred to here as "engaged democrats." First, …
War Commemoration and the Republic in Crisis
“Our dead are above the petty quarreling and the wretched, empty phrases that we cherish. A deep remembrance of our fallen brethren can only strengthen the will to reconcile differences and awaken the spirit that one of their number once expressed in this fashion: ‘Germany must live, even if we must die.”’ Thus a conservative nationalist representative to the Reichstag in Berlin addressed his colleagues in March 1927. His words reflect several no…
Für eine demokratische Erneuerung Deutschlands
In the public sphere of occupied Germany, questions of "democracy" and its renewal after National Socialism were much debated. While existing literature on postwar political culture emphasizes dynamics of restoration and assimilation, this article focuses on a more innovative and independent development: the vision of democratic renewal formulated by a diverse group of journalists and intellectuals referred to here as "engaged democrats." First, …
War Commemoration and the Republic in Crisis
“Our dead are above the petty quarreling and the wretched, empty phrases that we cherish. A deep remembrance of our fallen brethren can only strengthen the will to reconcile differences and awaken the spirit that one of their number once expressed in this fashion: ‘Germany must live, even if we must die.”’ Thus a conservative nationalist representative to the Reichstag in Berlin addressed his colleagues in March 1927. His words reflect several no…
War Commemoration and the Republic in Crisis
“Our dead are above the petty quarreling and the wretched, empty phrases that we cherish. A deep remembrance of our fallen brethren can only strengthen the will to reconcile differences and awaken the spirit that one of their number once expressed in this fashion: ‘Germany must live, even if we must die.”’ Thus a conservative nationalist representative to the Reichstag in Berlin addressed his colleagues in March 1927. His words reflect several no…
Für eine demokratische Erneuerung Deutschlands
In the public sphere of occupied Germany, questions of "democracy" and its renewal after National Socialism were much debated. While existing literature on postwar political culture emphasizes dynamics of restoration and assimilation, this article focuses on a more innovative and independent development: the vision of democratic renewal formulated by a diverse group of journalists and intellectuals referred to here as "engaged democrats." First, …
The Frankfurt School in Exile
There is more to be learned about Frankfurt's prewar Institute for Social Research and the adventures of its Nazi-era exile, as a new book by Thomas Wheatland demonstrates. Wheatland situates his work primarily in relation to the classic histories by Martin Jay and Rolf Wiggershaus, which says at once too little and too much. It shares with them a methodological sensibility and a critically sympathetic disposition, but it is different in scope an…
The Promise of Publicness
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 …
German Intellectuals and the Challenge of Democratic Renewal
This book examines how democracy was rethought in Germany in the wake of National Socialism, the Second World War, and the Holocaust. Focusing on a loose network of public intellectuals in the immediate postwar years, Sean Forner traces their attempts to reckon with the experience of Nazism and scour Germany's ambivalent political and cultural traditions for materials with which to build a better future. In doing so, he reveals, they formulated a…
Reconsidering the 'Unpolitical German
A long-standing thesis has it that modern Germany’s educated bourgeoisie identified with cultural ideals to the detriment of its political formation. Fixated on the realm of ideas, the ‘unpolitical German’ deferred to real-world authority, paving the road to National Socialism. While émigré scholars gave an influential version of this diagnosis, parallel concerns shaped debates within occupied Germany. On its unsettled political-cultural field, e…
Greening Democracy
Germany’s ‘old’ Federal Republic is well known for its vibrant environmental movement and the successful Green Party that issued from it. Stephen Milder’s impressive new book seeks to recast our understanding of this history on multiple fronts. He breaks not only with conventional narratives that explain 1970s environmentalism by way of elite ideas and international organizations but also with social movement research confined to a national frame…
Andreas Agocs. Antifascist Humanism and the Politics of Cultural Renewal in Germany
In Antifascist Humanism and the Politics of Cultural Renewal in Germany, Andreas Agocs has written an empirically focused, analytically wide-ranging study of the Cultural League for the Democratic Renewal of Germany (Kulturbund), a self-consciously antifascist organization that surfaced amid the ruins of Nazism in 1945. In its politically pluralist composition and its invocation of culture as a resource for regeneration, it was little different f…
Demokratisierung nach Auschwitz
Political science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · European history and politics (7 works) · Democracy (6 works) · History (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Communism, Protests, Social Movements (5 works) · German (5 works) · German History and Society (4 works)