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Fredric Raichlen

Fredric Raichlen

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Fredric Raichlen is Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology, and the author of Waves.

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    Germany's Modern Angst

    Helmut K. Anheier

    Whereas France has its philosophes, and Britain its economists, Germany relies on its sociologists to make sense of the big picture. What, then, can they tell us about the unease afflicting contemporary Western societies as they navigate late modernity?

     reviews four books that shed much-needed light on widely shared crises of collective and individual identity.
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