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1469-2171
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This article provides a perspective on the relations between Jaspers, Sternberger and Paeschke, and the SEC, an intellectual organisation which advocated the autonomy of culture from politics and the idea of common cultural ground with Eastern Europe. While West German intellectuals could endorse the principles of the association, they were reluctant to cooperate with foreign colleagues to bridge the division of Europe. This article supposes that their failure to collaborate with the SEC was due to the existence of a limited space for independent political initiatives, but also to their actual approval of the Cold War status, which had brought them back into the international community, and to the persistence of a traditional interpretation of ‘culture’, regardless of whether they accepted or refused this. Thus, the Cold War situation is not the only explanation of why the SEC failed to have success in West Germany in that phase.
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Contemporary European history, Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 1992, 32(2023), 3, Seite 327-338, 1469-2171
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volume:32
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year:2023
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number:3
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pages:327-338
Language:
English
Keywords:
European Society of Culture
DOI:
10.1017/S0960777321000552
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Guidali, Fabio 1984-
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