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Machiavellism
The lengthy introduction by the eminent sociologist Werner Stark provides a framework for understanding not just the importance of a singular thinker, but also the entire fabric of German history from Bismarck, the Kaiser, the Weimar Republic, and Nazism, to the post-World War II effort at the cultural, no less than material reconstruction of a democratic Germany.
Political Representation
Contemporary political philosophy disregards history as irrelevant to the nature of politics and to what constitutes a political problem. The author argues that this view reduces politics and political philosophy to a vapid academic game that is insensitive to both the essence and practice of politics. He proposes that an indissoluble link between history and politics lies in the notion of representation.
Handbuch Gelehrtenkultur der Frühen Neuzeit
Mit diesem Handbuch liegt erstmals ein umfassendes Namen- und Begriffslexikon der frühneuzeitlichen Gelehrtenkultur vor. Es besteht aus einem Bio-Bibliographischen Repertorium (Bd. I) zu den wichtigsten Autoren zwischen dem 15. und 18. Jahrhundert (von Thomas Abbt bis Zwingli) und einem (noch in Vorbereitung befindlichen) Glossar (Bd. II), mit konzisen Artikeln zu Zentralbegriffen der Gelehrtenkultur der Frühen Neuzeit, z. B. ars conversandi, disputatio, theologia naturalis, Zwinglianismus usw. Unter Gelehrtenkultur wird der Lebens- und Gesellschaftsbereich verstanden, in denen der Gelehrte eine bedeutende Rolle spielt bzw. der für ihn von Bedeutung ist. Im Vordergrund der Dokumentation stehen sowohl Kategorien, Termini und Bezeichnungen der mentalen und theoretischen als auch der sozialen und materiellen Kultur. Die Sachbereiche umfassen sowohl Lehre und Wissenschaft (Schulen, Fakultäten der Universität, Kirche, Jurisprudenz, Medizin usw.) als auch die Alltagskultur (Hof und Stadt, Haus und Garten, Freunde und Familie, Reisen, Schreiben und Lesen usw.).
Tommaso Campanella and the Transformation of the World
Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639) is one of the most fascinating, if hitherto inaccessible, intellectuals of the Italian Renaissance. His work ranges across many of the intellectual, ecclesiastical, and political concerns of that tumultuous era. John Headley uses Campanella's life and works to open a window into this complex period. He not only explicates the frequently contradictory texts of a prolific author but also situates Campanella's writings amidst the larger currents of European thought. For all its obscurely magical and astrolgocial intricacies, Campanella's entire intellectual endeavor expresses an effort to impose a distinctive order and direction upon the major issues and forces of...
The Many Deaths of Jew Süss
New historical insights into one of the most infamous episodes in the history of anti-Semitism Joseph Süss Oppenheimer—“Jew Süss”—is one of the most iconic figures in the history of anti-Semitism. In 1733, Oppenheimer became the “court Jew” of Carl Alexander, the duke of the small German state of Württemberg. When Carl Alexander died unexpectedly, the Württemberg authorities arrested Oppenheimer, put him on trial, and condemned him to death for unspecified “misdeeds.” On February 4, 1738, Oppenheimer was hanged in front of a large crowd just outside Stuttgart. He is most often remembered today through several works of fiction, chief among them a vicious Nazi propaganda movie made in 1940 at the behest of Joseph Goebbels. Investigating conflicting versions of Oppenheimer’s life and death as told by his contemporaries, Yair Mintzker conjures an unforgettable picture of “Jew Süss” in his final days that is at once moving, disturbing, and profound. The Many Deaths of Jew Süss is a masterful work of history and an illuminating parable about Jewish life in the fraught transition to modernity.
Tommaso Campanella
A friend of Galileo and author of the renowned utopia The City of the Sun, Tommaso Campanella (Stilo, Calabria,1568- Paris, 1639) is one of the most significant and original thinkers of the early modern period. His philosophical project centred upon the idea of reconciling Renaissance philosophy with a radical reform of science and society. He produced a complex and articulate synthesis of all fields of knowledge – including magic and astrology. During his early formative years as a Dominican friar, he manifested a restless impatience towards Aristotelian philosophy and its followers. As a reaction, he enthusiastically embraced Bernardino Telesio’s view that knowledge could only be acqui...
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Machiavellism
Here is a study, by a recognized master in the field of intellectual history, of the challenge put by Machiavelli to the idea that there is a universal moral law governing human behavior. Should the political leader act according to the maxim of "my country right or wrong," or should elites follow the principle of "let justice be done?" Friederich Meinecke, an acknowledged founder of cultural history as a field, follows the discussion of this theme from Machiavelli through such major figures as Richelieu, Frederick the Great, and Hegel, and presents conclusions of enduring significance.
