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