Twentieth-Century German Political Thought - 9780748622900

Edinburgh University Press

Twentieth-Century German Political ThoughtAuthor(s): Peter M. R. Stirk\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Edinburgh University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Edinburgh University Press\nISBN-13: 9780748622900, 978-0748622900\nSynopsis\nGermany, as Europes most powerful state, has a political significance which underlines the importance of twentieth-century German political thought. Yet this tradition has been poorly represented in academic literature. This book offers:*an account of German political thought emphasising its diversity and contested nature*an overview of the subject that allows access to relatively unknown figures as well as the names of the tradition (Weber, Schmitt, Arendt, Habermas)*a demonstration of the political significance of figures better known in other disciplines including law and sociologyThe book is organised chronologically, with a series of recurrent themes providing analytic unity: (i) the nature of politics (including political vocation and leadership, ae