The 1848 Revolutions and European Political Thought

The revolutions that swept across Europe in 1848 marked a turning-point in the history of political and social thought. They raised questions of democracy, nationhood, freedom and social cohesion that have remained among the key issues of modern politics, and still help to define the major ideological currents - liberalism, socialism, republicanism, anarchism, conservatism - in which these questions continue to be debated today. This collection of essays by internationally prominent historians of political thought examines the 1848 Revolutions in a pan-European perspective, and offers research on questions of state power, nationality, religion, the economy, poverty, labour, and freedom. Even where the revolutionary movements failed to achieve their explicit objectives of transforming the state and social relations, they set the agenda for subsequent regimes, and contributed to the shaping of modern European thought and institutions.

Author: Douglas Moggach
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 02/22/2018
Pages: 496
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.87lbs
Size: 9.26h x 6.35w x 1.21d
ISBN: 9781107154742

About the Author
Jones, Gareth Stedman: - Gareth Stedman Jones is Professor of the History of Ideas at Queen Mary University of London. Prior to this he held the post of Professor of Political Science, at the University of Cambridge, from 1997 to 2010. He is Director of the Centre for History and Economics, Cambridge, and a Life Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Historical Society. His publications include Outcast London (1971), An End to Poverty? (2004), Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto (2002), Religion and the Political Imagination, co-edited with Ira Katznelson (2010), and the Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Political Thought, co-edited with Gregory Claeys (2011). His most recent work Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion was published in August 2016.Moggach, Douglas: - Gareth Stedman Jones is Professor of the History of Ideas at Queen Mary University of London. Prior to this he held the post of Professor of Political Science, at the University of Cambridge, from 1997 to 2010. He is Director of the Centre for History and Economics, Cambridge, and a Life Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Historical Society. His publications include Outcast London (1971), An End to Poverty? (2004), Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto (2002), Religion and the Political Imagination, co-edited with Ira Katznelson (2010), and the Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Political Thought, co-edited with Gregory Claeys (2011). His most recent work Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion was published in August 2016.Stedman Jones, Gareth: - Douglas Moggach is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Ottawa, Honorary Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney, and a Life Member of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. He has held the University Research Chair in Political Thought, Ottawa, and visiting appointments in Beijing, Cambridge, London, Münster, and Pisa. The Canada Council for the Arts awarded him a Killam Research Fellowship in 2007. His publications, in seven languages, include Über die Prinzipien des Schönen (1996), The Philosophy and Politics of Bruno Bauer (Cambridge, 2003), The New Hegelians (Cambridge, 2006), Politics, Religion, and Art (2011) and (as co-author), Rethinking German Idealism (2016).