Elites Against Democracy (eBook)

Leadership Ideals in Bourgeois Political Thought in Germany, 1890-1933

Walter Struve (Autor)

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2015
500 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-7129-2 (ISBN)

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Since the beginning of the current era of imperialism in the late nineteenth century, there has been a striking contrast between bourgeois political thought in Germany and the West. Walter Struve demonstrates how German political culture went through a phase in which great emphasis was placed on the establishment of a new political elite recruited on the basis of merit and skill, but ruling in an authoritarian way, and not controlled by the populace. He suggests that this type of elitism, many aspects of which were vital to the political culture of Nazi Germany, seems today to be widespread in the West.The development of this concept of an open-yet-authoritarian elite is approached through the analysis of the political ideas and activities of nine elitists, among them Max Weber, Walther Rathenau, and Oswald Spengler. The author relates biography to intellectual, political, social, and economic history, so that his work becomes a study in the political and social context of intellectual history.Originally published in 1973.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.3.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: activism • Adolf Hitler • American middle class • Anti-Socialist Laws • aristocracy • bolsheviks • Bourgeoisie • bureaucrat • Caesarism • Capitalism • Carl Friedrich Goerdeler • Corporatism • Criticism • demagogue • Deutsche Rundschau • Disenchantment • Edgar Julius Jung • Elite • Elite Theory • elitism • Ernst Troeltsch • Franz von Papen • Friedrich Naumann • German re-armament • Germans • Gregor Strasser • Hans Grimm • Harry Graf Kessler • Harzburg Front • Heinrich von Treitschke • Hermann Rauschning • Historical school of economics • Hitler Cabinet • Houston Stewart Chamberlain • huey long • Ideology • imperialism • Inner emigration • Institution • Intelligentsia • Iron Law of Oligarchy • Karl Haushofer • Karl Kautsky • Konrad Adenauer • Kritik • Kurt Hiller • Kurt von Schleicher • liberal democracy • liberal elite • Liberalism • Marxism • Mein Kampf • middle class • Mittelstand • monarchism • monopoly capital • Nazi Germany • Nazi Party • Nazi Propaganda • Nazism • New Conservatism (China) • New Nationalism • Nobility • Oswald Spengler • Othmar Spann • Otto von Bismarck • Political Party • Political Philosophy • Politician • Politics • Politique • Preussentum und Sozialismus • prussia • Racism • right-wing politics • Romanticism • Sammlungspolitik • Sidney Hook • Social Darwinism • Social Democracy • social liberalism • social revolution • Soziologie • Stahlhelm • Strasserism • Superiority (short story) • Theodor Lessing • The Open Society and Its Enemies • The State and Revolution • The War Against the West • Thomas Nipperdey • Total War • Volksgemeinschaft • Walther Rathenau • Weimar Republic • Wilhelm Dilthey • Working Class • World War I • World War II • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-7129-8 / 1400871298
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-7129-2 / 9781400871292