1st Edition

German Political Philosophy The Metaphysics of Law

By Chris Thornhill Copyright 2007
416 Pages
by Routledge

416 Pages
by Routledge

416 Pages
by Routledge

This book combines philosophical, intellectual-historical and political-theoretical methodologies to provide a new synoptic reading of the history of German political philosophy. Incorporating chapters on the political ideas of Luther and Zwingli, on the politics of the early Enlightenment, on Idealism, on Historicism and Lukács, on early Twentieth-Century political theology, on the Frankfurt... Read more

Introduction  1. The Reformation  2. The Early Enlightenment  3. German Idealism  4. Historicism and Romanticism  5. The Young Hegelians and Karl Marx  6. Positivism and Organic Theory  7. The vitalist interlude  8. Neo-Kantianism  9. The Weimar Republic  10. Critical Theory and the Law  11. The Dialectics of Refoundation  12. Habermas and Luhmann.  Conclusion

Biography

Chris Thornhill is Professor in Politics at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of Walter Benjamin and Karl Kraus; Political Theory in Modern Germany; Karl Jaspers: Politics and Metaphysics (also published by Routledge); and co-authored Niklas Luhmann's Theory of Politics and Law.