Philosophie der Burgerlichkeit: Die lieberalkonservative Begrundung der Bundesrepublik
2008; Oxford University Press; Volume: 26; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1093/gerhis/ghm019
ISSN1477-089X
Autores ResumoApart from the burgeoning research on Carl Schmitt and his pupils in the Federal Republic, the intellectual history of West German conservatism is still by and large uncharted territory. This is at least in part due to the fact that the history of the Federal Republic has been built on the assumption that, after the crushing of Junker power and with the democratic reconstruction of Federal Republic from the ashes of World War II, there no longer was such a thing as German conservatism. Jens Hacke shows, however, that this was not the case. In his book, a published Berlin Ph.D. dissertation, he argues that a specific brand of ‘liberal conservatism’ emerged in the Federal Republic after World War II. This ‘liberal conservatism’ combined conservative credentials with the endorsement of the West German constitutional order. Its most significant proponents were students of the Münster Collegium Philosophicum run by Joachim Ritter (1903–1974). Unlike their mentor, they have been well known for their public interventions: Hermann Lübbe, Odo Marquardt and Robert Spaemann, and the lawyers Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde and Martin Kriele. Intellectually, these well-known figures were influenced by Ritter's liberal reinterpretations of Hegel's philosophy as one driven by the desire to bear the tension, within modernity, between social and political reality on the one hand and hopes and dreams on the other. They promoted historicism in the Rankean sense and, ironically given the debate between Ranke and Hegel at the time, found proof for this in their reading of Hegel.
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