258 Index
political culture, 4 , 23 , 25 , 134 , 153 , 156 ,
16 4, 166 , 16 7–69, 178 , 185
maturity of, 63 , 134 , 156 , 166 , 168
of the Enlightenment, 150
of the Federal Republic of Germany,
14 6
of the German Democratic Republic,
185
of the West, 14 6
political liberalism, 26 , 172
political science, 60 , 61 , 65
modeled on natural sciences, 93
positivistic character of, 60 , 61
political self-determination, 66 , 68
political sphere, autonomy of the,
206
politics
classical doctrine of, 92 , 93
judicialization of, 20
politics, classical doctrine of, 167
popular sovereignty, 50 , 51 , 61 , 67 , 68 ,
174 , 175 , 177 , 178 , 189 , 192 , 196 , 201 ,
206 , 211
proceduralization of, 177
republican commitment to, 184
positive liberties, 72
positivism, 57 , 80
positivist conception of law. See legal
positivism
postconventional identity, 150
postconventional morality, 150
postmodernism, 138 , 139 , 14 0
poststructuralism, 138 , 139 , 141 , 142
critique of, 25
power politics. See Machtpolitik
practical deliberation, 121
practical reason, 178
pragmatism, 94 , 100 , 101
American, 94
praxis philosophy, 182
premodernism, 138 , 139
Preuss, Ulrich, 22 , 176 , 186
private autonomy, 180 , 191
private morality, 162
procedural theory of law and democracy,
176 , 178 , 200 , 201
proletariat, 167 , 177
Promi-Blockade, 153
Prussian General Code, 14
public autonomy, 174 , 180 , 191
public memory, 147
public sphere, 33 , 72 , 89 , 98 , 99 , 107 , 205 ,
211
as leitmotif, 1
contemporary reinvention of, 177 , 178expanded access to, 73 , 206
in West Germany, 27 , 34
ersatz, 63
state’s obligations to support, 76
weakness in German Democratic
Republic of, 188
public sphere, theory of
and American political science, 61
as normative ideal, 72
bourgeois public sphere, 27
departure from Adorno and
Horkheimer, 27
difference from civil society, 71
influence of Abendroth, 78
political origins, 23 , 27 , 34
position in the West German
intellectual field, 60
public-opinion research, 60
Puchta, Georg Friedrich, 192
purposive-rational action, 118 , 119 , 124
Quaritsch, Helmut, 48
Radbruch, Gustav, 53 , 54 , 56 , 159
thesis of, 55
radical democracy, 141 , 175
radical democratic consciousness, 153 ,
156
radical reform, 25 , 89 , 102 , 113 , 114 , 116 ,
173 , 201
project of, 8 , 172
radically reformist jurisprudence, 84
rationality
aesthetic-expressive, 128
cognitive-instrumental, 128
moral-practical, 128
substantive, 2 , 124
rationalization, 100 , 123 , 124 , 130 , 14 0
rationalization, legal, 131
Rawls, John, 60 , 157 , 161 , 166 , 174
Reagan, Ronald, 147
reason
communicative concept of, 142
self-referential critique of, 142
Rechtsgrundsätze. See basic legal principles
Rechtsstaat, 8 , 13 , 42 , 43 , 61
absence of in the German Democratic
Republic, 187
according to Abendroth, 40 , 42 , 43
according to Schmitt, 50
according to Werner Weber, 50
and Basic Law, 18–19
and civil disobedience, 157 , 16 4
and generation of fifty-eighters, 212
and national identity, 200