Hennis has been a leading critic of German political life and thought for thelast 50 years. In this selection from his writings on government and constitutionality he shows how the postwar reconstruction of democratic politics in Germany highlighted general problems of party politics and democratic order thathave only recently been recognized. INDICE: Introduction; D.Kelly - The Problem of the German Conception of the State - The Idea of Office and the Concept of Democracy - Democratization: Concept and Problematic - Legitimacy: On a Category of Civil Society - Tocquevilleb s b New Political Scienceb - Goyab s Reason and the Project of Modernity:Seeking Understanding of b The Dream of Reasonb (Capricho 43) - b Hellenic Intellectual Cultureb and the Origins of Weberb s Political Thinking - PoliticalScience as a Vocation: A Personal Account
- ISBN: 978-0-230-00728-4
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 272
- Fecha Publicación: 27/02/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés