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A review essay on a book by Alex Demirovic, Der nonkonformistische Intellektuelle. Die Entwicklung der Kritischen Theorie zur Frankfurter Schule ([The Nonconformist Intellectual. The Development of the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School] Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1999).

Explores problems related to the connection between national & cultural identities in the work of Jurgen Habermas. Habermas intimates certain implications of globalization, as well as cosmopolitanism when it is viewed as a political response to globalization, that clearly disrupt the distinction between national & cultural identity. Highlighted is Habermas's claim that cultural, rather than political, identities promote the establishment & maintenance of democratic procedures in multicultural states. It is contended that national & cultural identities cannot be clearly differentiated in modernity, & cosmopolitans should not use group-differentiated rights to defend cultural identities. Rather, efforts should be made to create broader solidarities & to open a global ethical discourse based on Habermas's formulation that focuses on the "historical processes in which oppressed groups have been constituted, how they have responded to that oppression, & how, very often, they vanished.". J. Lindroth

From Bonn to Berlin -- There are alternatives! -- II: Interventions -- From power politics to cosmopolitan society -- A sort of logo of the free West -- The finger of blame: the Germans and their memorial -- III: Public representation and cultural memory -- Symbolic expression and ritual behavior: Ernst Cassirer and Arnold Gehlen revisited -- IV: Europe in transition -- Euroskepticism, market Europe, or a Europe of (world) citizens? -- Does Europe need a Constitution? -- V: A question of political theory -- Constitutional democracy--a paradoxical union of contradictory principles? -- VI: American pragmatism and German philosophy: three reviews -- John Dewey, The quest for certainty -- Richard Rorty, Achieving our country -- Robert Brandom, Making it explicit -- VII: Jerusalem, Athens, and Rome -- A conversation about God and the world

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Critical Theory in an Authoritarian Age / Wendy Brown, Peter E. Gordon, and Max Pensky -- Neoliberalism's Frankenstein: Authoritarian Freedom in Twenty-First Century "Democracies" / Wendy Brown -- The Authoritarian Personality Revisited: Reading Adorno in the Age of Trump / Peter E. Gordon -- Radical Critique and Late Epistemology: Tocqueville, Adorno, and Authoritarianism / Max Pensky