The Political Thought of Heinrich Von Treitschke (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Political Thought of Heinrich Von TreitschkeThis book - which is mainly composed of selections from the work of Treitschke - has not been put together with a controversial purpose, but in the belief that Englishmen may find it worth their while to understand the political philosophy which is now the vogue in Germany. Though I have sometimes criticised, criticism has not been my main object. I have attempted to explain how the thought of Treitschke was influenced by the events of his own lifetime, and how his famous lectures upon Politik grew out of the polemical essays which he wrote between 1860 and 1878. These essays referred directly or indirectly to current questions of German politics; what abstract thought they contain is coloured by controversial considerations and partisan sympathies. But the Politik is little more than a symmetrical and co-ordinated restatement of the positions which he had defended in the essays. For this reason, that it reflected the views which had gained the upper hand in German controversies, the Politik has been enthusiastically applauded by German readers; but for the same reason the book seems inexplicably one-sided to a foreign reader until he has retraced the process by which the author formed his ideas.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.