Civil Society and the State (2024)

After Kant: The Romans, the Germans, and the Moderns in the History of Political Thought

Michael Sonenscher

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2023

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9780691245645

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9780691245621

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After Kant: The Romans, the Germans, and the Moderns in the History of Political Thought

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Sonenscher, Michael, 'Civil Society and the State', After Kant: The Romans, the Germans, and the Moderns in the History of Political Thought (Princeton, NJ, 2023; online edn, Princeton Scholarship Online, 23 May 2024), https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691245645-011, accessed 28 May 2024.

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This chapter looks into the concept of palingenesis turning either into the modern concept of revolution, or the more recognizable concept of the Renaissance. The Roman revival was matched by autonomy reverting to its older meaning of self-government, and civil society recovering its earlier association with the state. According to Heinrich Ahrens, Roman liberty was not modern liberty, and neo-Roman liberty would simply open a door to imperialism. The chapter provides an overview of Johann Kaspar Bluntschli and his theory of the modern state before considering the liberal foundations of Realpolitik presented by Heinrich von Treitschke. It also explains how Otto von Gierke used the concept of a Genossenschaft to try to reconcile the rival camps of Romanists and Germanists in nineteenth-century German legal and political thought.

Keywords: palingenesis, revolution, Renaissance, Roman revival, Heinrich Ahrens, Roman liberty, Johann Kaspar Bluntschli, modern state, Realpolitik, Otto von Gierke

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Social and Political Philosophy

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