Postmodern Pluralism and Concepts of Totality

The Twenty-fourth Wisconsin Workshop. Edited by Jost Hermand. The volume contains eight contributions. Instead of conforming to conventional patterns of an unquestioned «democratic pluralism», the speakers at this conference tried to rescue certain concepts of totality from meaningless notions of an «open society» which has given up all hopes for a political, social and cultural communality, based on concepts of the common good. And they did this not only in regard to political and socio-economic theories, but also in view of discourses such as feminism, ecology, utopian thinking, philosophy, German studies, and materialist theories of literature. VIII,163 Seiten, gebunden (German Life and Civilization; Vol. 16/Peter Lang Verlag 1995) Mängelexemplar