From Vienna to Chicago and Back: Essays on Intellectual History and Political Thought in Europe and America

Contents......Page 8
Foreword by Bernard Bailyn......Page 10
Foreword by John W. Boyer......Page 12
Introduction: Traces of an Intellectual Journey......Page 16
Part I: Anglo-American History......Page 42
1. Reason and Power in Benjamin Franklin’s Political Thought......Page 44
2. William Blackstone: Teacher of Revolution......Page 75
3. Constitution: Changing Meanings of the Term fromthe Early Seventeenth to the Late Eighteenth Century......Page 95
4. Charles A. Beard’s Interpretations of American Foreign Policy......Page 115
Part II: Austrian History—Imperial and Republican......Page 146
5. The Multinational Empire Revisited:Reflections on Late Imperial Austria......Page 148
6. Ethnic Attribution in Late Imperial Austria:Good Intentions, Evil Consequences......Page 172
7. The National Compromise in the Bukovina......Page 192
8. Max Diamant and Jewish Diaspora Nationalismin the Bukovina......Page 205
9. The Age of Emancipation and Assimilation:Liberalism and Its Heritage......Page 219
10. An Apogee of Conversions:Gustav Mahler, Karl Kraus, and fin de siècle Vienna......Page 239
11. The Origins of Austrian Neutrality......Page 263
Part III: The Tocquevillian Moment:From Hierarchical Status to Equal Rights......Page 288
12. Equal Rights: Equalizing the Individual’s Statusand the Break through of the Modern Liberal State......Page 290
13. Liberal Democracy as a Culture of Rights: England, the United States, and Continental Europe......Page 319
14. Tocqueville’s Understanding of “Conditions of Equality”and “Conditions of Inequality”......Page 350
Part IV: On the Human Condition......Page 374
15. The Unforgivable Sin: An Interpretation of Albert Camus’ The Fall......Page 376
Appendix: Bibliographical Information......Page 390
Index of Names......Page 396
Index of Subjects......Page 406