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Jurgen Habermas, A Berlin Republic: Writings on Germany (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1998), 187 pp., $32.95, ISBN 0 7456 2045 0.
This publication, which first appeared in Germany in 1995, collects Habermas's interviews and observations, mainly on contemporary German political developments since 1989. It contains his contributions to the political debates of the early 1990s, including the question of dealing with the 'double burden' of the German past, the political legacy of both the Nazi and the East German dictatorships. His main focus is on the political direction of the new united Germany,...