5. Gerald Stourzh-Vorlesung zur Geschichte der Menschenrechte und der Demokratie
James T. Kloppenberg
American Democracy in European Perspective:
Transatlantic Impacts in the History of U.S. Political Culture
15. Mai 2013
Mit freundlicher Unterstützung der Botschaft der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika
James T. Kloppenberg ist Charles Warren Professor of American History an der Harvard University. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte liegen in der amerikanischen und europäischen Geistesgeschichte sowie theoretischen Fragen der Geschichtswissenschaft.
Wichtigste Veröffentlichungen: Uncertain Victory: Social Democracy and Progressivism in European and American Thought, 1870-1920 (Oxford University Press, 1986); Hg. mit R. W. Fox: A Companion to American Thought (Blackwell, 1995); The Virtues of Liberalism (Oxford University Press, 1998); Reading Obama: Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition (Princeton University Press, 2010).
Homepage von James T. Kloppenberg
Abstract
How and why did the idea and the practice of popular sovereignty develop in the United States when democracy was rejected almost everywhere in Europe until the 20th century? James T. Kloppenberg will explore this question, drawing on his forthcoming book "Tragic Irony: Democracy in Early European and American Thought". Kloppenberg places early experiments in self-government in England’s North American colonies in the context of the sixteenth-century European wars of religion and the English Civil War, then locates the American Revolution, the US Constitution, and the nineteenth-century expansion of democracy in America in relation to the French Revolution and its aftermath. Finally, he reflects on the long-term consequences of the United States Civil War, which continues to shape American political culture one-hundred-fifty years later.
Interview mit James T. Kloppenberg in: Der Standard, 22. Januar 2017
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Begrüßung durch Institutsvorstand Andreas Schwarcz
Begrüßung durch Dekanin Claudia Theune-Vogt
Einleitung von Birgitta Bader-Zaar