Download PDF by Chris Thornhill: Political Theory in Modern Germany: An Introduction

By Chris Thornhill

ISBN-10: 0745619991

ISBN-13: 9780745619996

ISBN-10: 0745620000

ISBN-13: 9780745620008

This booklet offers an available and entire advent to the foremost political thinkers of recent Germany. It comprises chapters at the works of Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, Franz Neumann, Otto Kirchheimer, Jurgen Habermas and Niklas Luhmann. those works are tested of their social and historic contexts, starting from the interval of Bismarck to the current day.

a transparent photograph is gifted of the connections among person theoretical positions and the final political stipulations of recent Germany. parts of political historical past lined particularly intensity comprise nineteenth-century felony and parliamentary heritage, elements of German liberalism, Weimar social democracy, political Catholicism, Adenauer and Erhard, Brandt's reforms and the Tendenzwende of the overdue Seventies. via heavily linking highbrow and political historical past, this paintings examines how fresh German political conception has constructed as a collection of various responses to routine features and difficulties of political lifestyles in sleek Germany. even as, it addresses the philosophical and political implications of the works which it treats, and it significantly examines how smooth German political conception has contributed to broader makes an attempt to theorize political legitimacy and politics itself.

This e-book should be of curiosity to scholars of political concept, German reports and ecu political history.

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