The Past As Future

Vergangenheit Als Zukunft

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by Jurgen Habermas,

Introduction by Peter Hohendahl,

Translated by Max Pensy

University of Nebraska Press

Due/Published August 1994, 185 pages, paper

ISBN 0803272669

This volume of interviews reveals Haberman's passionate engagement with contemporary issues. Wide-ranging and informal, the interviews focus on matters of decisive importance to Germany and the rest of the world in the 1990s: German unification; recent explosive debates about interpretations of German history, Germany's asylum policies, and the Nazi era; efforts to create a cooperative, peaceful Europe; and the significance of the Persian Gulf War. A final interview focuses on the relation between theory and practice--between philosophy and the so-called real world.