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utopia of a workers’ society, 180
utopian energies, exhaustion of,
179
utopian socialism, 115
utopianism, 117 , 176
validity-claims, 13 , 84 , 126
value jurisprudence, 80 , 196 , 198 , 207
values, static vs. dynamic concepts of,
100
Veit, Hermann, 39
Vereinigung der Deutschen
Staatsrechtslehrern. See Association of
Professors of Constitutional Law
Verfassungspatriotismus. See constitutional
patriotism
Verfassungsstaat. See constitutional state
Vergangenheitsbewältigung. See coming
to terms with the past. See also Nazi
past: of the legal profession
Vernunftrepublikaner. See republican
based on reason
Verrechtlichung. See juridification
Vietnam War, 103 , 107 , 108 , 136
Vogel, Hans-Jochen, 137
Volk skam mer. See German Democratic
Republic, Parliament of
voluntarism
as ideology, 115
von Friedeburg, Ludwig, 87 , 102
von Ihering, Rudolf, 192
von Lambsdorff, Otto Graf, 136
von Savigny, Friedrich Carl, 192 , 193
von Stein, Lorenz, 28 , 204
von Weiszäcker, Carl Friedrich,
98
Walser, Martin, 8
Walther, Manfred, 55
Weber, Max, 2 , 1 5–17, 18 , 91 , 92 , 122 ,
166 , 208 , 211
‘Politics as a Vocation’, 49 , 91 , 122
‘Science as a Vocation’, 91 , 118
and Carl Schmitt, 192
and decisionism, 99
and German statism, 191
and Hobbes, 93
and Theory of Communicative Action,
121 , 122 , 13 0–32
antinomies of, 123 , 208
aporia in, 17
as a liberal, 17
connection of legality and
legitimacy, 24decisionism, 122
distinction between the aesthetic-
expressive and the purposive-
rational forms of action, 118 , 122
ethics of responsibility, 136
formalist error of, 194
legal formalism of, 191, 193 , 194 , 208 ,
210
legal positivism, 208
on science and politics, 97 , 100
reduction of legal legitimacy, 17
refusal of the “reenchantment of the
world,” 119
relationship of science to politics, 24
theory of modernity, 122 , 166
theory of rationalization, 2 , 122 , 123 ,
128 , 14 0, 208
Weber, Werner, 28 , 48 , 50 , 51 , 52 , 59 ,
69 , 95
Wehler, Hans-Ulrich, 5 , 148 , 150
Wehner, Herbert, 37
wehrhafte Demokratie. See militant
democracy
Weimar constitution, 19 , 35 , 50 , 51 , 68 ,
69 , 79 , 105
Article 48, 51 , 104 , 105
Weimar Republic, 4 , 12 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 26 ,
28 , 34 , 44 , 48 , 49 , 50 , 51 , 53 , 68 , 69 ,
81 , 96 , 139 , 205
Weinkauff, Hermann, 54
welfare state, 23 , 27 , 40 , 42 , 63 , 67 , 69 , 70 ,
71 , 76 , 116 , 129 , 141 , 151 , 179 , 180 ,
198 , 201 , 204 , 206 , 210
in post-World War II Europe,
117 , 210
Wellmer, Albrecht, 111
West Berlin, 36 , 136
West European left, 209
West German constitutionalism, 171
West German democracy, 187
West German left, 182
West German political culture, 1
West German public sphere, 207
West Germany
and national identity, 147 , 148 , 168 , 200
as a mature political culture, 200
normalization of national identity, 148
Westbindung, 2 , 13 3–34, 14 4–51, 169 ,
203 , 207
friend-enemy logic of, 168
Western civilization, 96
Western European liberalism, 176
Western European social democracy, 176
Western liberal democracy, 207