Introduction

Karl C. Lammers, Gert Sørensen

1-21

Italian intellectuals and the European view

croce, nitti and chabod between dictatorship and democracy

Gert Sørensen

25-43

Europe between democracy and fascism

Hermann Heller on fascism as a threat to Europe and democracy as a community of values

Karl C. Lammers

44-57

Reconstruction or decline?

the concept of Europe and its political implications in the works of Ernst Troeltsch and Oswald Spengler

Adam Paulsen

58-79

A long and winding road

an international perspective on the fall and rise of democracy in spain in the twentieth century

Morten Heiberg

80-92

Theology as language of crisis

Karl Barth's commentary on the epistle to the romans

Dietrich Korsch

95-111

Martin Heidegger — a protestant Church father of the twentieth century?

the early Heidegger's phenomenology of religion and the crisis of Western culture

112-137

The heritage from Athens and Galilee

secular democracy as a Lutheran response to the European crisis

Tine Reeh

138-157

Religion and secular modernity

a historical perspective on the Ratzinger-Habermas encounter, 19 january 2004

Julio Jensen

158-189

A post-post-liberal order

how Western Europe emerged from its thirty-year crisis

Jan-Werner Müller

193-212

Bombing beyond democracy

remembering the ruins of Europe

Birthe Hoffmann

213-226

Reinterpreting the European heritage since 1989

culture as a conflict of interpretations

Gérard Delanty

227-245