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  • 4 - The Paradigmatic Example of Weimar and Postwar Political Science

  • Edited by Richard Ned Lebow, King's College London, Ludvig Norman, University of Stockholm
  • Book:
    Weimar's Long Shadow
    Published online:
    26 September 2024
    Print publication:
    27 June 2024, pp 84-118

  • Summary

    Breiner emphasizes Weimar’s role as an exemplar in political thought and focuses specifically on the highly influential political scientist Otto Kirchheimer. His chapter highlights how Kirchheimer viewed the Weimar Constitution as a struggle over conflicting and irreconcilable notions of democracy and society and further ties it to his postwar theory of political opposition and its decline. Breiner uses these discussions to highlight how mainstream American political science have misunderstood these ideas and how they relate to core aspects of the Weimar problematique.