From Vienna to Chicago and back : essays on intellectual history and political thought in Europe and America / / Gerald Stourzh

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910807711603321
• Autore: Stourzh Gerald
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2007
• ISBN: 1-282-53745-8; 9786612537455; 0-226-77638-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (412 p.)
• Disciplina: 320.092
• Soggetti: Political science - Europe; Political science - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-379) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Foreword -- Introduction: Traces of an Intellectual Journey -- 1. Reason and Power in Benjamin Franklin's Political Thought (1953) -- 2. William Blackstone: Teacher of Revolution (1970) -- 3. Constitution: Changing Meanings of the Term from the Early Seventeenth to the Late Eighteenth Century (1988) -- 4. Charles A. Beard's Interpretations of American Foreign Policy (1957) -- 5. The Multinational Empire Revisited: Reflections on Late Imperial Austria (1992) -- 6. Ethnic Attribution in Late Imperial Austria: Good Intentions, Evil Consequences (1994) -- 7. The National Compromise in the Bukovina (1996) -- 8. Max Diamant and Jewish Diaspora Nationalism in the Bukovina (2002) -- 9. The Age of Emancipation and Assimilation: Liberalism and Its Heritage (2001) -- 10. An Apogee of Conversions: Gustav Mahler, Karl Kraus, and fin de siècle Vienna (2004) -- 11. The Origins of Austrian Neutrality (1988) -- 12. Equal Rights: Equalizing the Individual's Status and the Breakthrough of the Modern Liberal State (1996) -- 13. Liberal Democracy as a Culture of Rights: England, the United States, and Continental Europe (2000) -- 14. Tocqueville's Understanding of "Conditions of Equality" and "Conditions of Inequality" (2006) -- 15. The Unforgivable Sin: An Interpretation of Albert Camus' The Fall (1961) -- Appendix: Bibliographical Information -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects
• Sommario/riassunto: Spanning both the history of the modern West and his own five-decade journey as a historian, Gerald Stourzh's sweeping new essay collection covers the same breadth of topics that has characterized his career-from Benjamin Franklin to Gustav Mahler, from Alexis de Tocqueville to Charles Beard, from the notion of constitution in seventeenth-century England to the concept of neutrality in twentieth-century Austria.This storied career brought him in the 1950's from the University of Vienna to the University of Chicago-of which he draws a brilliant picture-and later took him to