J�RGEN KOCKA was president of the Social Science Research Center in Berlin until 2007 and professor of modern history at the Free University of Berlin until 2009. He has published numerous books, including Industrial Culture and Bourgeois Society.
[A]s the author refects on his work, on that of his contemporaries,
and on the ways in which historians think about the past as they
confront the present, he creates a valuable and interesting
addition to our discipline s efforts at self-understanding. Journal
of Interdisciplinary History"
By provoking such interesting questions, Kocka has presented a
magisterial volume. It is a daunting record of scholarly
achievement that only occasionally alludes to the fierceness of the
controversies from which it has sprung. As summary of the central
issues of earlier debates and as entry point into the development
of German scholarship it should therefore become essential reading,
especially for Anglo-American graduate students. The fundamental
values that have inspired Kocka s methodological approaches and
interpretative arguments as well as his lifelong involvement in
academic and public discussions, are firmly grounded in the liberal
Enlightenment heritage. In this way, these essays are also an
exemplar of the intellectual Westernization and democratization of
postwar Germany which continue to animate the Federal Republic.
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