The new conservatism: cultural criticism and the historians' debate

Jürgen Habermas is well known for his scholarly writings on the theoretical foundations of the human sciences.

The 'New Conservatism' brings to light another side of Habermas's work, showing him to be an incisive commentator on a wide range of contemporary themes.

The 1980s have been a crucial decade in the political life of Western democracies in general, and of the Federal Republic of Germany in particular.

The transformations that accompanied a shift from 13 years of Social democratic rule in Germany to government by the conservative Christian Democrats are captured in this series of insightful, often passionate political and cultural commentaries.