Germany’s Postwar Re-education and Its Weimar Intellectual Roots
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10075769 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Udi E Greenberg (Dartmouth College), Udi Greenberg (0009-0008-5321-5028, Dartmouth College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 10-32 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Contemporary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0094 • E-ISSN: 1461-7250 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0022009410383294 |
| OpenAlex | W2074317149 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
During its occupation by the United States and throughout the 1950s, Germany experienced one of the most dramatic intellectual, cultural, and educational transformations in history. Historians have often observed the intrusion by the USA into German intellectual and institutional life as part of the USA’s overall plan to ‘re-educate’ Germany and to tie it to its own political traditions and Cold War goals. Through examination of the political theories and academic educational reforms of Carl J. Friedrich, one of the most important intellectuals of the Cold War, this article argues that US policies were simultaneously shaped and determined by intellectual traditions from the Weimar period. It shows how Friedrich’s educational theories, which had a tremendous influence on both US and German academic establishments after the war, were developed already in the context of the Weimar-era ‘Heidelberg School’ and the political theories of Max Weber. Through this example, the article seeks to offer a new and more complex picture of Germany’s postwar democratization in general
Aesthetics · Cold war · Context (archaeology · Democracy · Democratization · Economic history · German · Intellectual history · Period (music · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Weimar Republic · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · European history and politics · History · Law · Philosophy · Political Science Research and Education
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,21 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2022 (11) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |