Ethics in a World of Power : : The Political Ideas of Friedrich Meinecke / / Richard W. Sterling.

Writing from a country shattered by two World Wars and by Nazi barbarism, Friedrich Meinecke, Germany's foremost historian of this century, was deeply troubled by the problem of reconciling power and justice in international affairs. This study of his political philosophy traces his thinking ab...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]
©1958
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 1995
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • PREFACE
  • CONTENTS
  • CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION
  • CHAPTER II. THE NATION-STATE: THE IDEAL POLITICAL COMMUNITY
  • CHAPTER III. COSMOPOLITANISM AS A POLITICAL ILLUSION
  • CHAPTER IV. STATE AND NATION IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
  • CHAPTER V. THE STATE AS A POWER ORGANIZATION
  • CHAPTER VI. THE STATE AS A CULTURAL INSTITUTION
  • CHAPTER VII. WORLD WAR I: THE POLARITY OF POWER AND CULTURE
  • CHAPTER VIII. DEFEAT AND REVOLUTION: THE POLARITY OF POWER AND CULTURE
  • CHAPTER IX. THE UBIQUITY OF POWER
  • CHAPTER X. RAISON D'ETAT AND THE PRIMACY OF THE STATE
  • CHAPTER XI. THE PRIMACY OF THE INDIVIDUAL
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX