German Thought and International Relations: The Rise and Fall of a Liberal Project (Palgrave Studies in International Relations)

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Part I......Page 10
The liberal project and realist politics in context......Page 12
The context of knowledge production......Page 19
A framework for interrogating the international dimension of social transformation......Page 22
German backwardness in context......Page 29
Introduction......Page 39
Enclosure and the creation of the capitalist subject......Page 41
Comparative backwardness: France and Britain in the colonial contest......Page 46
The process of substitution: The creation of the Jacobin subject......Page 52
The results of substitution: Terror and the citizen-soldier......Page 57
Conclusion......Page 64
Part II......Page 66
Introduction......Page 68
Frederick the Great\'s enlightened absolutism......Page 71
Cameralism and the limits of corporate governance......Page 74
The Aufklärung – a corporate affair......Page 77
Kant\'s corporate Enlightenment......Page 80
Kant and the post-revolutionary world......Page 84
Toward the French deluge......Page 92
Conclusion......Page 94
Introduction......Page 97
Aufhebung: Social transformation with an international dimension?......Page 100
Deutschtum or Bildung? The battle over reform......Page 111
Geist as a consciousness of backwardness......Page 119
Hegel\'s last challenge......Page 123
Conclusion......Page 126
The fracturing of the Bürgertum......Page 128
Floundering reform......Page 131
Failed revolution......Page 133
Introduction......Page 136
Realpolitik: Liberalism for a post-revolutionary era......Page 139
White Revolution: Monarchism for a post-monarchical era......Page 143
A new vocation of science......Page 152
Bismarck\'s legacy: Weber\'s solution......Page 159
Charisma: A spiritual antidote to arrested development......Page 161
Realpolitik as a vocation......Page 165
Weber\'s value comparison across cultures......Page 167
Conclusion......Page 171
Part III......Page 174
A nation-in-arms?......Page 176
Constitutionalism and Jacobinism......Page 178
From Jacobin to Führer......Page 181
The Nazist impersonal collective......Page 183
Introduction......Page 186
Existential crisis in the Weimar Republic......Page 188
Morgenthau in Weimar and beyond......Page 191
The political philosophy of a conservative liberal......Page 194
Legacies of a consciousness of backwardness......Page 199
Bildung in America......Page 202
9 – Conclusion......Page 208
Notes......Page 213
Bibliography......Page 227
F......Page 256
H......Page 257
N......Page 258
S......Page 259
W......Page 260