Dictatorship in History and Theory: Bonapartism, Caesarism, by Peter Baehr, Melvin Richter

By Peter Baehr, Melvin Richter

A distinct workforce of historians and political theorists learn the complicated courting among nineteenth-century democracy, nationalism, and authoritarianism, paying especial realization to the careers of Napoleon I and III, and of Bismarck. an immense contribution of the e-book is to think about not just the momentous episodes of coup d'etat, revolution, and imperial origin which the Napoleonic period heralded, but additionally the contested political language with which those occasions have been defined and assessed. Political thinkers have been confronted with a battery of recent phrases - 'Bonapartism', 'Caesarism', and 'Imperialism' between them - with which to make feel in their period. in addition to documenting the political historical past of a progressive age, the e-book examines a chain of thinkers - Tocqueville, Marx, Max Weber, Antonio Gramsci, Carl Schmitt, and Hannah Arendt - who articulated and helped to reshare our experience of the political.

Show description

Read or Download Dictatorship in History and Theory: Bonapartism, Caesarism, and Totalitarianism (Publications of the German Historical Institute) PDF

Best germany books

Bildung und Wissenschaft seit der Wende: Zur Transformation des ostdeutschen Bildungssystems

1. 1 Zum Thema In den Jahren 1989 und 1990 vollzogen sich in Europa Umbrüche mit welt­ weiten Folgen. Die friedlichen Revolutionen in den mittelosteuropäischen Staaten, die Auflösung der Warschauer Vertragsorganisation und des sowjeti­ schen Macht- und Einflußbereiches, der Zerfall der Sowjetunion und nicht zuletzt die Wiedererlangung der deutschen Einheit sind Teile eines Prozesses, der in historischer Perspektive mit dem Ersten Weltkrieg einsetzte und erst 1 durch die genannten Ereignisse einen vorläufigen Abschluß fand .

Einführung in die Probleme der Allgemeinen Psychologie

Excerpt from Einführung in die Probleme der Allgemeinen PsychologieDie anschauliche Wirklichkeit, von welcher die Psychiatrie schauend, beobachtend, scheidend und kombinierend ihren Ausgangspunkt nimmt und zu welcher sie umgestaltend, helfend und heilend auf großen Umwegen zurückkehrt, ist der seelisch-kranke Mensch.

Geschichtschreibung und Geschichtsbewußtsein im hohen Mittelalter

Der Gegenwartsbezug jeder Geschichtsschreibung ist bislang kaum systematisch untersucht worden. Das in diesem Buch behandelte hohe Mittelalter, eine wichtige "Umbruchs- und Krisenzeit" in der Geschichte sowohl des Denkens wie des Handelns innerhalb der Epoche des Mittelalters, eignet sich für einen solchen Ansatz in besonderer Weise: Es battle, was once die gebildeten Schichten anbelangt, unbestritten eine Epoche hohen Geschichtsbewusstseins, die erstmals seit der Spätantike wieder große geschichtstheologische Synthesen, zum Beispiel bei Hugo von St.

Additional info for Dictatorship in History and Theory: Bonapartism, Caesarism, and Totalitarianism (Publications of the German Historical Institute)

Example text

Unleashing the oratory of the Tribunate therefore seemed a useful way to lay the imperial option formally before the public. While hardly anyone would hear the speeches, they could read them in the Moniteur or other journals.

Before 1804, he pushed aside the issue in various ways. In more candid moments Bonaparte maintained that at present no one could succeed him. When forced by his interlocutors to discuss this, he threw up another obstacle: Suppose he did have the right to name his successor or to nominate 15 Roederer Papers: Archives Nationales (hereafter A. ) 29 AP 75: circular by Roederer to prefects, 25 flor´eal X; A. N. AF IV 1432, dossier 3: Execution de l’arrˆet´e du 20 flor´eal X; Rapport au Consuls, 8 thermidor X.

As Thibaudeau summarized the argument (which reflected his own view): “At the present moment the world at large will see in it ambition rather than patriotism. It is both ill timed and premature. ” Within its narrow terms, the debate became highly animated and required four sittings, after the Council finished its ordinary business, to wind down. 22 More significantly, the seven dissenters refused to sign the address drawn up by Regnaud, claiming that they had been expressly invited to offer their individual opinions.

Download PDF sample

Dictatorship in History and Theory: Bonapartism, Caesarism, by Peter Baehr, Melvin Richter
Rated 4.66 of 5 – based on 28 votes