Claus Offe: 8 books

Book cover of Reflections on America

Reflections on America

Tocqueville, Weber and Adorno in the United States

by Claus Offe
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014

At a time when so many cracks have emerged within the imagined community of ‘the West', this important new book, by one of the leading social scientists in Europe, examines the intellectual history of comparing Europe and the United States. Claus Offe considers the perspectives adopted by three...
Book cover of Contradictions of the Welfare State
by Claus Offe
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2018

Originally published in 1984, Contradictions of the Welfare State is the first collection of Claus Offe’s essays to appear in a single volume in English. The political writings in this volume are primarily concerned with the origins of the present difficulties of welfare capitalist states, and he...
Book cover of Europe Entrapped
by Claus Offe
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015

Today Europe finds itself in a crisis that casts a dark shadow over an entire generation. The seriousness of the crisis stems from one core political contradiction at the heart of the European project: namely, that what urgently needs to be done is also extremely unpopular and therefore virtually...
Book cover of Citizens in Europe

Citizens in Europe

Essays on Democracy, Constitutionalism and European Integration

by Claus Offe, Ulrich Preuß
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016

This interdisciplinary collection of essays by a constitutionalist and a political sociologist examines how fragmented societies can be held together by appropriate and effective constitutional arrangements providing for bonds of democratic citizenship. Exploring the political order dilemmas of capitalist...
Book cover of Politics at the Turn of the Century
by Arthur Melzer, Todd Gitlin, Seyla Benhabib
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2001

With the end of the Cold War, the death of Communism, and the decline of Socialism, what are the primary issues, ideologies, and parties that now structure politics? Melzer, Zinman, and Weinberger have compiled essays from prominent experts to examine the politics of the past to help plot the political...
Book cover of Transit 40. Europäische Revue

Transit 40. Europäische Revue

Zeitalter der Ungewissheit

by Ulrich K. Preuß, Claus Offe, Timothy Snyder
Language: German
Release Date: November 15, 2010

Der Zusammenbruch des Sowjetimperiums ließ das herrschende Narrativ des 20. Jahrhunderts, insbesondere das Bild des Zweiten Weltkriegs und der Nachkriegszeit, über Nacht überholt erscheinen. 1991 traf sich in Wien am Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen eine Gruppe von Historikern aus dem...
Book cover of Transit 38. Europäische Revue

Transit 38. Europäische Revue

Vereintes Europa – geteilte Geschichte

by Timothy Snyder, Lynne Viola, Claus Offe
Language: German
Release Date: November 10, 2009

"Eigentlich sollte es selbstverständlich sein, das ganze Gewicht von Nazi- und Sowjetterror anzuerkennen.", schreibt Timothy Snyder in Transit 28. Dass wir nach wie vor noch weit davon entfernt sind, zeigen ein Essay Snyders, der das vorliegende Heft eröffnet, sowie die anschließenden Beiträge. Bis...
Book cover of Transit 44. Europäische Revue

Transit 44. Europäische Revue

Zukunft der Demkoratie

by Claus Offe, Michael Sandel, Jacques Rupnik
Language: German
Release Date: January 9, 2014

Während sich in den letzten drei Jahrzehnten im Rest der Welt mehr Menschen als je zuvor an demokratischen Wahlen beteiligten, hat in vielen europäischen Ländern die Mehrheit der Bevölkerung den Glauben daran verloren, mit ihrer Stimme etwas bewirken zu können. Hier sinkt die Wahlbeteiligung seit...
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