ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |3 pages
Introduction
part |87 pages
Enlightenment and Revolution
chapter |44 pages
Germany and the French Revolution
chapter |41 pages
The Political Ideas of Kant
chapter |30 pages
Fichte, the Jacobin
chapter |30 pages
Wilhelm Von Humboldt
chapter |38 pages
The Classicists
part |115 pages
The Romantic Movement
chapter |15 pages
The Romantic Attitude
chapter |29 pages
The Precursors
chapter |15 pages
Burke in Germany: Friedrich Gentz
chapter |22 pages
Novalis and Friedrich Schlegel
chapter |32 pages
The Organic Theory
chapter |22 pages
Görres
part |64 pages
The Reconstruction of Prussia