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"The first book-length study to critically examine the recent wave of Hitler biopics in German cinema and television. A group of international experts discuss films like Downfall in the context of earlier portrayals of Hitler and draw out their implications for the changing place of the Third Reich in the national historical imagination"--

"Combining transcultural and comparative approaches, the essays collected here exemplify the best work being done in the emerging field of German-Asian studies. Here, a range of specialists examine the varied, multi-faceted ties between not only the various German states and China over the past two centuries, but also the more personal nature of such relationships during this important period in both these countries' histories. They cover a range of topics including economics, geography, history, human rights, philosophy, literature, politics, and religion. For the first time, they offer the reader a unique look at the role that each of these subjects played in developing what is today a very unique relationship between two of the world's most important political and economic powers"--

In his Habillitationschrift, Strukturwandel der Öffentlicheit: Untersuchungen zu einer Kategorie der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft (1961), Jürgen Habermas described the emergence of a bourgeois public sphere in England, France and Germany at the end of the 18th century, characterized by the accessibility to literature, the growing number of newspapers and the apparition of discursive areas (Britain's coffee houses, France's salons and Germany's Tischgesellschaften). He pointed out three institutional criteria, which are preconditions for the emergence of a public sphere (Öffentlichkeit): disregard of status among the participants to the public sphere; domain of common concern; and inclusivity in the sense that everyone is able to have access to the discussed issues (which have significance for the society as a whole). If such sphere of rational and universalistic politics, free from both the economy and the State, was partly destroyed by the growth of capitalism in the 19th century and by the recurring attempt of the State to limit its influence (like in France under Napoleon III or in Germany under the Wilhelm II), it can be said that there still were some intellectuals or scholars who resisted! Here I deal with two of them, Ferdinand Tönnies and Friedrich Paulsen, who contributed, as I will shortly outline, to the building or strengthening of a public sphere in Wilhelminian Germany in the sense of Habermas' definition. Their main focus is related to two ideas or programs they developed: the formation of The public opinion and the definition of Bildung as moral and civic education. I will also briefly link these ideas and programs to their role as agent, mainly as university professor and as Publizist, by addressing some of their achievements, and by showing strategic and discursive aspects of their writings and by indicating some of the main topics they dealt with.

In his Habillitationschrift, Strukturwandel der Öffentlicheit: Untersuchungen zu einer Kategorie der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft (1961), Jürgen Habermas described the emergence of a bourgeois public sphere in England, France and Germany at the end of the 18th century, characterized by the accessibility to literature, the growing number of newspapers and the apparition of discursive areas (Britain's coffee houses, France's salons and Germany's Tischgesellschaften). He pointed out three institutional criteria, which are preconditions for the emergence of a public sphere (Öffentlichkeit): disregard of status among the participants to the public sphere; domain of common concern; and inclusivity in the sense that everyone is able to have access to the discussed issues (which have significance for the society as a whole). If such sphere of rational and universalistic politics, free from both the economy and the State, was partly destroyed by the growth of capitalism in the 19th century and by the recurring attempt of the State to limit its influence (like in France under Napoleon III or in Germany under the Wilhelm II), it can be said that there still were some intellectuals or scholars who resisted! Here I deal with two of them, Ferdinand Tönnies and Friedrich Paulsen, who contributed, as I will shortly outline, to the building or strengthening of a public sphere in Wilhelminian Germany in the sense of Habermas' definition. Their main focus is related to two ideas or programs they developed: the formation of The public opinion and the definition of Bildung as moral and civic education. I will also briefly link these ideas and programs to their role as agent, mainly as university professor and as Publizist, by addressing some of their achievements, and by showing strategic and discursive aspects of their writings and by indicating some of the main topics they dealt with.

"Although 'entanglement' has become a keyword in recent German history scholarship, entangled studies of the postwar era have largely limited their scope to politics and economics across the two Germanys while giving short shrift to social and cultural phenomena like gender. At the same time, historians of gender in Germany have tended to treat East and West Germany in isolation, with little attention paid to intersections and interrelationships between the two countries. This groundbreaking collection synthesizes the perspectives of entangled history and gender studies, bringing together established as well as upcoming scholars to investigate the ways in which East and West German gender relations were culturally, socially, and politically intertwined"