This book shows that the 1848 revolutions played a key role in the development of the political thought of the Young Hegelians, Arnold Ruge, Bruno Bauer, Moses Hess and Karl Marx. They all developed revolutionary ideas in the 1840s and hoped for revolutionary events as those that occurred in 1848, but their theories failed to predict the outcome of the revolution. By an empirical analysis this work clearly demonstrates that the Young Hegelians under study changed their theoretical outlooks as a direct result of the 1848 revolutions. It is argued that the mechanism for this change is intellectual disillusionment, that these intellectuals became disillusioned with the theories they had developed in the 1840s because they experienced the 1848 revolutions as an intellectual failure. The book examines the question of how intellectuals deal with their failure to predict the world, and how theory and the change of theory are related to actual historical events.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Peter Lang
ISBN-13
9783631620540
eBay Product ID (ePID)
114975946
Product Key Features
Author
Michael Kuur Sorensen
Publication Name
Young Hegelians before and after 1848: When Theory Meets Reality
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2011
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
265 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
210mm
Item Width
148mm
Volume
18
Item Weight
460g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Michael Kuur Sorensen
Series Title
Forschungen Zum Junghegelianismus. Quellenkunde, Umkreisforschung, Theorie, Wirkungsgeschichte