Hans J. Morgenthau and the American Experience
This edited volume covers the development of the thought of the political realist Hans J. Morgenthau from the time of his arrival in America from Nazi-dominated Europe through to his emphatic denunciation of American policy in the Vietnam War. Critical to
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erican Experience
Edited by
Cornelia Navari
Hans J. Morgenthau and the American Experience
Cornelia Navari Editor
Hans J. Morgenthau and the American Experience
Editor Cornelia Navari University of Buckingham Buckingham, UK
ISBN 978-3-319-67497-1 ISBN 978-3-319-67498-8 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67498-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017960418 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover illustration: Glasshouse Images/Alamy Stock Photo. Cover Design by Tom Howey Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Preface
Hans J. Morgenthau is generally considered a political realist and the transmitter of continental Realpolitik into American letters. But he has also been claimed as an idealist, as a constructivist, and as an ethicist. Some of these claims make sense if we understand that Morgenthau was trained as a lawyer in the German historical tradition during the time that German legal realism was struggling to contain the challenges to the Weimar Republic’s constitutional structure and the crises that confronted it. Others can be made sense of if we understand that—self-consciously a “European”—he was continuously adapting his ideas to an American audience and, in the process, being socialized into an American experience. This volume illustrates the “Americanization” of Morgenthau. The project was inspired by the English translation of Morgenthau’s 1933 La Notion du ‘Politique’ (The Concept of the ‘Political’), undertaken and edited by Hartmut Behr and Felix Rösch, which appeared in 2012. That text, somewhat obscure to the Anglo-Saxon reader, requiring exte
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