Introduction: Putting German Political Thought in Context; J.W.Müller PART 1: THE TRANSFORMATION OF GERMAN POLITICAL THOUGHT IN THE POST-WAR PERIOD Restoring the German Spirit: Humanism and Guilt in Post-War Germany; A.Rabinbach Normative Westernization?: The Impact of Remigres on the Formation of Political Thought in Post-War Germany; A.Söllner Habermas's Reconstruction of West German Law and the Sozialstaat Controversy; J.P.McCormick The Westernization of the Political Thought of the West German Labour Movement; J.Angster PART 2: CRITICAL THEORY AND THE LEGACIES OF 1968 Post-War Ideologies and the Body Politics of 1968; D.Herzog 1968 as Event, Milieu and Ideology; J.W.Müller PART 3: GERMAN CONSERVATISM: FROM TECHNOCRATIC CONSERVATISM TO THE NEW RIGHT From the Conservative Revolution to Technocratic Conservatism; D.van Laak German Neo-Conservatism, c.1968 to 1985: Hermann Lübbe and Others; J.Muller From National Identity to National Interest: The Rise (and Fall) of Germany's New Right; J.W.Müller PART 4: GERMAN REPUBLICANISM AND THE POLITICS OF RECOGNITION A Tolerant Republic; R.Forst The Many Faces of the Republic; W.A.Barbieri