The Responsibility of Power: Historical Essays in Honor of Hajo Holborn

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Power and Responsibility: The Historical Assumptions....Pages 3-33
Machiavelli: The Art of Politics and the Paradox of Power....Pages 34-53
The Responsibilities of Power According to Erasmus of Rotterdam....Pages 54-63
Sebastian Castellio on the Power of the Christian Prince....Pages 64-84
Richelieu....Pages 85-106
The Nature of Political Power According to Louis XIV....Pages 107-122
Front Matter....Pages 123-123
Friedrich Schiller and the Problems of Power....Pages 125-144
1848....Pages 145-161
Juridical and Political Responsibility in Nineteenth-Century Germany....Pages 162-182
Burckhardt’S Renaissance: Between Responsibility and Power....Pages 183-198
Power and Responsibility: Otto Hintze’s Place in German Historiography....Pages 199-219
Freedom and Power in History....Pages 220-229
Front Matter....Pages 231-231
Politics in a New Key: SchÖnerer....Pages 233-251
Bethmann Hollweg and the War: The Limits of Responsibility....Pages 252-285
Domestic Causes of the First World War....Pages 286-300
Naumann and Rathenau: Their Paths to the Weimar Republic....Pages 301-314
Friedrich Ebert and the German Revolution of 1918....Pages 315-334
Lenin and Power....Pages 335-352
Neville Chamberlain and Munich: Two Aspects of Power....Pages 353-369
Reinhold Niebuhr: Prophet in Politics....Pages 370-386
Front Matter....Pages 231-231
Limits of American Internationalism: 1941–45....Pages 387-401
The Conditions of Revolutionary Power....Pages 402-415
The Responsibility of Science....Pages 416-438
Epilogue....Pages 439-444
Back Matter....Pages 445-451
....Pages 453-464