European Self-Reflection Between Politics and Religion

Preface PART I: CONTESTING EUROPEAN IDENTITIES. FASCISM AND THE CHALLENGES FROM WITHIN 1. Italian Intellectuals and the European View. Croce, Nitti and Chabod between Dictatorship and Democracy; G. Sørensen 2. Europe between Democracy and Fascism:Hermann Heller on Fascism as Threat to Europe and Democracy as a Community of Values; K. C. Lammers 3. Reconstruction or Decline? The Concept of Europe and its Political Implications in the Works of Ernst Troeltsch and Oswald Spengler; A. Paulsen 4. A Long and Winding Road: An International Perspective on the Fall and Rise of Democracy in Spain in the 20th Century; M. Heiberg PART II: RENEGOTIATING THE RELIGIOUS-SECULAR DIVIDE 5. Theology as Language of Crisis: Karl Barth's Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans; D. Korsch 6. Martin Heidegger – A Protestant Church Father of the 20th Century? The Early Heidegger's Phenomenology of Religion and the Crisis of Western Culture; L. K. Bruun 7. The Heritage from Athens and Galilee: Secular Democracy as a Lutheran Response to the European Crisis; T. Reeh 8. Religion and Secular Modernity: A Historical Perspective on the Ratzinger-Habermas Dialogue; J. Jensen PART III: POST-WAR REINTERPRETATION OF EUROPEAN HERITAGE 9. A Post-Post-Liberal Order:How Western Europe Emerged from its Thirty-Year Crisis; J. Müller 10. Bombing Beyond Democracy: Remembering the Ruins of Europe; B.Hoffmann 11. Reinterpreting the European Heritage since 1989; G. Delanty Index