1st Edition

History of Political Thought in Germany 1789-1815

By Reinhold Aris Copyright 1966
    416 Pages
    by Routledge

    416 Pages
    by Routledge

    First Published in 1965. This study deals with the history of political thought in Germany from 1789 to 1815. It is the story of a nation awaking from a long sleep, commencing to think for itself, to modernize its institutions, to formulate its ideas of the pattern of society and the duties of the State. Modern German literature begins with Klopstock and Lessing. German political thinking comes even later, for it is the child of the French Revolution.

    Introduction; Part 1 Enlightenment and Revolution; Chapter 1 Germany and the French Revolution; Chapter 2 The Political Ideas of Kant; Chapter 3 Fichte, the Jacobin; Chapter 4 Wilhelm Von Humboldt; Chapter 5 The Classicists; Part 2 The Romantic Movement; Chapter 6 The Romantic Attitude; Chapter 7 The Precursors; Chapter 8 Burke in Germany: Friedrich Gentz; Chapter 9 Novalis and Friedrich Schlegel; Chapter 10 The Organic Theory; Chapter 11 Görres; Part 3 The Reconstruction of Prussia; Chapter 12 Fichte, the Nationalist; Chapter 13 Stein and his Collaborators; Chapter 14 The Opposition;

    Biography

    Reinhold Aris, G. P. Gooch