Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 298 g
Nineteenth Century Political Thought
Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 298 g
ISBN: 978-1-4128-5487-0
Verlag: Routledge
Louis Hartz is best known for his classic study, The Liberal Tradition in America. At Harvard University, his lecture course on nineteenth-century politics and ideologies was memorable. Through the editorial hand of Paul Roazen, we can now share the experience of Hartz's considerable contributions to the theory of politics.
At the root of Hartz's work is the belief that revolution is not produced by misery, but by pressure of a new system on an old one. This approach enables him to explain sharp differences in revolutionary traditions. Because America essentially was a liberal society from its beginning and had no need for revolutions, America also lacked reactionaries, and lacked a tradition of genuine conservatism characteristic of European thought.
In lectures embracing Rousseau, Burke, Comte, Hegel, Mill, and Marx among others, Hartz develops a keen sense of the delicate balance between the role of the state in both enhancing and limiting personal freedom. Hartz notably insisted on the autonomy of intellectual life and the necessity of individual choice as an essential ingredient of liberty.
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Foreword, by Benjamin R. Barber Introduction, by Paul Roazen Part I: The Revolutionary Background 1 Origins2 The Religious Problem3 The Economic Question4 Culture and Tradition: Condorcet5 Jean-Jacques Rousseau6 Rousseau and Our Constructive Problem Part II: Reaction and Authoritarianism 7 The Setting8 Romanticism9 Edmund Burke10 Joseph de Maistre11 Louis de Bonald12 Auguste Comte13 Georg W. F. Hegel14 A Free Society and Its Relation to the State Part III: Liberalism 15 The Problem of Industrial Society16 Bentham's Utilitarianism17 John Stuart Mill18 Pierre-Paul Royer-Collard19 Benjamin Constant20 Italy and Mazzini21 Historic Success and Failure Part IV: Socialism 22 Robert Owen23 Francois Fourier24 Karl Marx Conclusion Index
