"This volume analyzes liberal thought in the Eastern Mediterranean since the late nineteenth century, highlighting its long-term and ongoing influence, and challenging the conventional wisdom that liberalism has no legitimate place in the region's intellectual discourse."--Jacket
"Wir nennen's gemeinsinn" (we call it public spirit): republic and republicanism in the German political discussion of the nineteenth century / Rudolf Vierhaus -- The concept of the republic in eighteenth-century German thought / Hans Erich Bödeker -- Kant's republicanism and its echoes / Otto Dann -- Constitutions, charity, and liberalism by default: Germany and the Anglo-American tradition / A.G. Roeber -- Politics and sentiment: Catharine Macaulay's republicanism / Vera Nünning -- Between liberalism and republicanism: "manners" in the political thought of Mercy Otis Warren / Rosemarie Zagarri -- The liberal and democratic republicanism of the first American state constitutions, 1776-1780 / Willi Paul Adams -- Bennington and the Green Mountain boys: the emergence of liberal democracy in Vermont, 1760-1850 / Robert E. Shalhope -- The birth of American liberalism: New York, 1820-1860 / James A. Henretta -- Republicanism, liberalism, and market society: party formation and party ideology in Germany and the United States, c. 1825-1850 / Paul Nolte -- Festive culture and national identity in America and Germany, 1760-1860 / Jürgen Heideking -- Charles Follen's view of republicanism in Germany and the United States, 1815-1840 / Edmund Spevack -- "The right to possess all the faculties that God has given": possessive individualism, slave women, and abolitionist thought / Amy Dru Stanley -- Freedom of contract and freedom of person: a brief history of "involuntary servitude" in American fundamental law / Robert J. Steinfeld
Auf die Frage, was Freiheit sei, gaben engagierte Katholiken nach der Französischen Revolution unterschiedliche Antworten: Joseph Görres erhob immer lauter den Ruf nach Freiheit der Kirche vom Staat. Der Publizist Félicité de Lamennais ergänzte diesen Ruf um den nach christlich begründeter bürgerlicher Freiheit. Solchen konservativen und liberalen Strömungen trat 1848 eine andere an die Seite: Die katholische Kirche sollte wie der Staat demokratisch werden - eine Auffassung, die in der Frankfurter Paulskirche von katholischen Anhängern des Staatskirchentums ebenso vertreten wurde wie von den "Deutschkatholiken". Die Festschreibung der Kirchenfreiheit im Verfassungsentwurf von 1848 stärkte also nur einen Strang des katholischen Freiheitsstrebens und schwächte liberale und demokratische Modernisierungspotentiale.
"Since 1989, the Cold War has ended, new nations have emerged in Eastern Europe, and revolutionary struggles to establish liberal ideals have been waged against repressive governments throughout the world. Will the promise of liberalism be realized? What can liberals do to make the most of their opportunities and construct enduring forms of political order? In this important and timely book, a leading political theorist discusses the possibility of liberal democracy in Western and Eastern Europe and offers practical suggestions for its realization. Bruce Ackerman begins by sketching the challenges faced a Western Europe free for the first time in half a century to determine its own fate without the constant intervention of the United States and the Soviet Union. Unless decisive steps are taken, this moment of promise can degenerate into a new cycle of nationalist power struggle. Revolutionary action is now required to build the foundations of a democratic federal Europe - a union strong enough to keep the peace and to combat the threat of local tyrannies."--Publisher description