The New Conservatism
Cultural Criticism and the Historians’ Debate
By Jürgen Habermas
Edited by Shierry Weber Nicholsen
Introduction by Richard Wolin, pages xxii-xxiv
Valuable Insight on Carl Schmitt’s theory of the friend/enemy distinction on page 34:
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