Learning from Franz L. Neumann: Law, Theory, and the Brute Facts of Political Life
David Kettler, Thomas Wheatland, "Learning from Franz L. Neumann: Law, Theory, and the Brute Facts of Political Life"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1783089970 | PDF | pages: 512 | 3.6 mb
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1783089970 | PDF | pages: 512 | 3.6 mb
A labor lawyer and publicist of weight in the Weimar Republic, Franz Neumann devoted his 21-year exile, after 1933, to understanding the failure of arrangements supposed to be in the line of social progress. He sought to delineate a new conception of democracy as a vehicle of social change. A remarkably effective teacher in the last years of his life, Neumann was also a gifted learner, whose negotiations with a series of forceful thinkers enabled him to work toward a promising intellectual strategy in political thinking. Learning from Franz L. Neumann examines Neumann’s social and political theory in the context of his career as a practitioner, learner and teacher