Peter C Caldwell
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 81904 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Peter C Caldwell |
| NOMBRES | Peter C |
| APELLIDO | Caldwell |
| FIRMA | CALDWELL P C |
| AFILIACIONES | Rice University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3316-9032 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1970 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Living the German Revolution, 1918–19
Weimar's Long Shadow
Weimar casts a long shadow over post-war political thought. The Weimar Republic is used to understand contemporary threats to democracy and to critique or defend modernity. It has generated a series of political lessons that are invoked whenever democracies are challenged. This book questions the historical validity of most of these lessons and their applicability to contemporary political orders. It shows how Weimar lessons are often influenced …
Between Containment and Rollback
Robert Gerwarth. November 1918
Despite several decades of innovative research, we have lacked a new general history of the German revolution of 1918–19. No longer. Gerwarth has written a highly readable narrative of a major turning point in German history, rejecting earlier narratives that viewed 1918 as a failed revolution. Informed by his earlier work, The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End (2017), Gerwarth frames the German revolution as “the first and the la…
The Crucible of German Democracy
Selling the Economic Miracle
Most accounts of the political history of the early Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) focus on the rise of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Under the leadership of Konrad Adenauer, the CDU broke with the Catholic orientation of the old Center Party, opened itself up to a wider range of constituencies, adopted a position in favor of orientation toward the West in the Cold War, and stood behind what it called the social market economy, which c…
Michael Stolleis (1941–2021)
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Legal indeterminacy and authoritarianism
Scheuerman’s book is one of the handful of significant attempts to rethink Schmitt’s work systematically over the past four decades. In so doing, he raises three key questions for me. First, is Schmitt’s work a sincere contribution to legal and political theory, or an attempt to argue for setting the rule of law aside for authoritarianism, that is, an instrumental critique of indeterminacy? Second, to what extent is Schmitt – critical of the ‘bou…
The Human Rights Dictatorship
This well-written book argues that human rights were not imposed on the German Democratic Republic from outside, but rather were ideas generated from within between 1949 and 1959, and that they increasingly served as part of the state’s ideological arsenal after 1968. GDR intellectuals and leaders asserted that socialism, which guaranteed social rights through the apparatus of the party-state, made real the promises of equality of the older, bour…
Benjamin Carter Hett. The Death of Democracy
In 1932–1933, Germany’s first democracy collapsed and a megalomaniacal, authoritarian, war-mongering habitual liar came to power, with horrific consequences. The value of Benjamin Carter Hett’s The Death of Democracy: Hitler’s Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic lies not so much in original research and argument—the basic points are familiar—as it does in its presentation of a compelling, fast-moving narrative useful for non-his…
Democracy, Capitalism, and the Welfare State
This book investigates political thought under the conditions of the postwar welfare state, focusing on the Federal Republic of Germany (1949–89). It argues that the welfare state informed and altered basic questions of democracy as those institutions take on broader and more concrete forms after the 1950s. These questions were especially important for West Germany, given its recent experience with the collapse of capitalism, the disintegration o…
Authoritarian constitutionalism
In countries like Russia, Hungary, Venezuela and Turkey, democratically elected leaders have used constitutional means to alter the rules of the game in order to solidify their grip on power. They
Hüter der Ordnung
This book is the first in a new series on the history of the Federal Ministry of the Interior in West Germany (BMI) and the Ministry of the Interior in East Germany (MdI). Produced by a team of scholars associated with the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung in Potsdam and the Institut für Zeitgeschichte in Munich, this volume describes the development of the two ministries, responsible for domestic order and security, from 1945 to around 1970.…
The Collapse of the Weimar Republic
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The Life of the Dead
In Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion, Gareth Stedman Jones draws a distinction between Marx's nineteenth-century views and those of twentieth-century Marxism, which abandoned ideas of Marx that seemed outdated. Stedman Jones' careful reconstruction of Marx's philosophical, political, and economic thought in the context of the new social thought of the early nineteenth century, however, reveals aspects of Marx that returned to challenge official M…
Hugo Preuss’s Concept of the Volk
Hugo Preuss, Germany’s Interior Minister during the revolution of 1918–9, was the chief influence on the shape of the Weimar Constitution (1919–33). In his writings and constitutional commentaries over the years that followed, he developed a theory of politics that aimed to bridge the gap between revolution and constitution by institutionalizing the power of the ‘people.’ From his critics’ point of view, the result was an eclectic mixture of diff…
Hugo Preuss’s Concept of the Volk
When the Complexity of Lived Experience Finds Itself Before a Court of Law
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Love, Death, and Revolution in Central Europe
The philosopher of religion and critic of idealism, Ludwig Feuerbach had a far-reaching impact on German radicalism around the time of the Revolution of 1848. This intellectual history explores how Fe
Plan als Legitimationsmittel, Planung als Problem
Unlike other planning regimes of the 20th century, state socialism employed an image of the plan that operated at the level of myth. Its single plan implied a single planner, the party, which understood the laws governing social development. In theory, the technical intelligentsia translated this knowledge into scientifically correct technical practice. In practice, however, the plan and planning took on a paradoxical relationship. While the plan…
Mark Landsman, Dictatorship and Demand
July 01 2007 Mark Landsman, Dictatorship and Demand: The Politics of Consumerism in East Germany Peter C. Caldwell Peter C. Caldwell Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Peter C. Caldwell Online Issn: 1531-3298 Print Issn: 1520-3972 © 2007 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2007 Journal of Cold War Studies (2007) 9 (3): 195–197. https://doi.org/10.1162/jcws.2007.9.3.195 Cite Icon Cite…
Mark Landsman, Dictatorship and Demand
January 01 2007 Mark Landsman, Dictatorship and Demand: The Politics of Consumerism in East Germany Peter C. Caldwell Peter C. Caldwell Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Peter C. Caldwell Online Issn: 1531-3298 Print Issn: 1520-3972 © 2007 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2007 Journal of Cold War Studies (2007) 9 (1): 147–148. https://doi.org/10.1162/jcws.2007.9.1.147 Cite Icon C…
Controversies over Carl Schmitt
From Liberal Democracy to Fascism
Productivity, Value, and Plan
Research Article| March 01 2000 Productivity, Value, and Plan: Fritz Behrens and the Economics of Revisionism in the German Democratic Republic Peter C. Caldwell Peter C. Caldwell Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2000) 32 (1): 103–137. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-32-1-103 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Peter C. Caldwell;…
The Crucifix and German Constitutional Culture
Productivity, Value, and Plan
Research Article| March 01 2000 Productivity, Value, and Plan: Fritz Behrens and the Economics of Revisionism in the German Democratic Republic Peter C. Caldwell Peter C. Caldwell Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2000) 32 (1): 103–137. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-32-1-103 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Peter C. Caldwell;…
Selling the Economic Miracle
Most accounts of the political history of the early Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) focus on the rise of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Under the leadership of Konrad Adenauer, the CDU broke with the Catholic orientation of the old Center Party, opened itself up to a wider range of constituencies, adopted a position in favor of orientation toward the West in the Cold War, and stood behind what it called the social market economy, which c…
When the Complexity of Lived Experience Finds Itself Before a Court of Law
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Reforming adult continuing education
Sensational Studies
A review of David Howes (ed.), Empire of the Senses: The Sensual Culture Reader (Berg, Oxford, 2005) and Constance Classen (ed.), The Book of Touch (Berg, Oxford, 2005
Reforming adult continuing education
The Crucifix and German Constitutional Culture
Popular Sovereignty and the Crisis of German Constitutional Law
The History of the Distillers Company, 1877-1939
Reviewed by: The History of the Distillers Company, 1887–1939: Diversification and Growth in Whiskey and Chemicals* Peter Caldwell (bio) The History of the Distillers Company, 1887–1939: Diversification and Growth in Whiskey and Chemicals. By R. B. Weir: Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press, 1995. Pp. xxii+417; illustrations, figures, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. $80. Ronald Weir earned the sobriquet “the whiskey man” in a …
Popular Sovereignty and the Crisis of German Constitutional Law
Popular Sovereignty and the Crisis of German Constitutional Law is a historical analysis of competing doctrines of constitutional law during the Weimar Republic. It chronicles the creation of a new constitutional jurisprudence both adequate to the needs of a modern welfare state and based on the principle of popular sovereignty. Peter C Caldwell explores the legal nature of democracy as debated by Weimar's political theorists and constitutional l…
Different Restorations
Productivity, Value, and Plan
Research Article| March 01 2000 Productivity, Value, and Plan: Fritz Behrens and the Economics of Revisionism in the German Democratic Republic Peter C. Caldwell Peter C. Caldwell Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2000) 32 (1): 103–137. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-32-1-103 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Peter C. Caldwell;…
From Liberal Democracy to Fascism
Controversies over Carl Schmitt
Mark Landsman, Dictatorship and Demand
July 01 2007 Mark Landsman, Dictatorship and Demand: The Politics of Consumerism in East Germany Peter C. Caldwell Peter C. Caldwell Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Peter C. Caldwell Online Issn: 1531-3298 Print Issn: 1520-3972 © 2007 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2007 Journal of Cold War Studies (2007) 9 (3): 195–197. https://doi.org/10.1162/jcws.2007.9.3.195 Cite Icon Cite…
Mark Landsman, Dictatorship and Demand
January 01 2007 Mark Landsman, Dictatorship and Demand: The Politics of Consumerism in East Germany Peter C. Caldwell Peter C. Caldwell Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Peter C. Caldwell Online Issn: 1531-3298 Print Issn: 1520-3972 © 2007 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2007 Journal of Cold War Studies (2007) 9 (1): 147–148. https://doi.org/10.1162/jcws.2007.9.1.147 Cite Icon C…
Plan als Legitimationsmittel, Planung als Problem
Unlike other planning regimes of the 20th century, state socialism employed an image of the plan that operated at the level of myth. Its single plan implied a single planner, the party, which understood the laws governing social development. In theory, the technical intelligentsia translated this knowledge into scientifically correct technical practice. In practice, however, the plan and planning took on a paradoxical relationship. While the plan…
Love, Death, and Revolution in Central Europe
The philosopher of religion and critic of idealism, Ludwig Feuerbach had a far-reaching impact on German radicalism around the time of the Revolution of 1848. This intellectual history explores how Fe
When the Complexity of Lived Experience Finds Itself Before a Court of Law
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Hugo Preuss’s Concept of the Volk
Hugo Preuss, Germany’s Interior Minister during the revolution of 1918–9, was the chief influence on the shape of the Weimar Constitution (1919–33). In his writings and constitutional commentaries over the years that followed, he developed a theory of politics that aimed to bridge the gap between revolution and constitution by institutionalizing the power of the ‘people.’ From his critics’ point of view, the result was an eclectic mixture of diff…
Hugo Preuss’s Concept of the Volk
The Collapse of the Weimar Republic
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Life of the Dead
In Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion, Gareth Stedman Jones draws a distinction between Marx's nineteenth-century views and those of twentieth-century Marxism, which abandoned ideas of Marx that seemed outdated. Stedman Jones' careful reconstruction of Marx's philosophical, political, and economic thought in the context of the new social thought of the early nineteenth century, however, reveals aspects of Marx that returned to challenge official M…
Democracy, Capitalism, and the Welfare State
This book investigates political thought under the conditions of the postwar welfare state, focusing on the Federal Republic of Germany (1949–89). It argues that the welfare state informed and altered basic questions of democracy as those institutions take on broader and more concrete forms after the 1950s. These questions were especially important for West Germany, given its recent experience with the collapse of capitalism, the disintegration o…
Authoritarian constitutionalism
In countries like Russia, Hungary, Venezuela and Turkey, democratically elected leaders have used constitutional means to alter the rules of the game in order to solidify their grip on power. They
Hüter der Ordnung
This book is the first in a new series on the history of the Federal Ministry of the Interior in West Germany (BMI) and the Ministry of the Interior in East Germany (MdI). Produced by a team of scholars associated with the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung in Potsdam and the Institut für Zeitgeschichte in Munich, this volume describes the development of the two ministries, responsible for domestic order and security, from 1945 to around 1970.…
The Human Rights Dictatorship
This well-written book argues that human rights were not imposed on the German Democratic Republic from outside, but rather were ideas generated from within between 1949 and 1959, and that they increasingly served as part of the state’s ideological arsenal after 1968. GDR intellectuals and leaders asserted that socialism, which guaranteed social rights through the apparatus of the party-state, made real the promises of equality of the older, bour…
Benjamin Carter Hett. The Death of Democracy
In 1932–1933, Germany’s first democracy collapsed and a megalomaniacal, authoritarian, war-mongering habitual liar came to power, with horrific consequences. The value of Benjamin Carter Hett’s The Death of Democracy: Hitler’s Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic lies not so much in original research and argument—the basic points are familiar—as it does in its presentation of a compelling, fast-moving narrative useful for non-his…
Legal indeterminacy and authoritarianism
Scheuerman’s book is one of the handful of significant attempts to rethink Schmitt’s work systematically over the past four decades. In so doing, he raises three key questions for me. First, is Schmitt’s work a sincere contribution to legal and political theory, or an attempt to argue for setting the rule of law aside for authoritarianism, that is, an instrumental critique of indeterminacy? Second, to what extent is Schmitt – critical of the ‘bou…
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