Eduard Gans and the Crisis of Hegelianism

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ID4455474
AuthorsWarren Breckman (corresponding author)
Year2001
Volume62
Issue3
Pages543-564
Publication date2001-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of the History of Ideas (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-5037 • E-ISSN: 1086-3222
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/jhi.2001.0025
OpenAlexW2087596908
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited18

In a 1834 report on the development of economic associationism in France, Johannes Schön detected an echo in Germany, the stirrings of a debate over the "modern Associationswesen." This discussion, he believed, would be crucial to the future of the "national economy." 1 Schön was an astute observer, for the German discussion of associationism in the early 1830s was indeed but a faint echo of the French; and insofar as the idea of association was addressed by prominent social writers in those years, it was generally greeted with suspicion. This was the case, for instance, with the liberal thinker Robert von Mohl, whose influential 1835 tract on the social question criticized the notion of proletarian associationism. Conversely, by the early 1840s, association was on many tongues as a panacea for the social ills of the age. By 1840 Mohl himself had embraced the "Assoziationsprinzip" as an antidote to the atomized condition of modern social life. 2

Epistemology · German · Hegelianism · Naturalism · Panacea (medicine) · Pathology · Political science · Proletariat · Psychoanalysis · Social science · Sociology · Classics · Critical Theory and Philosophy · European Political History Analysis · History · Law · Medicine · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Psychology · Religious studies · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory

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