Peter von Oertzen 1924-2008 : A Political and Intellectual Biography /
This exhaustive study traces Peter von Oertzen's transformation from a Berlin upbringing marked by Prussian traditions, conservative revolution, and National Socialism to his role as a Marxist and left-wing Social Democrat. It explores his dual impact as a political scientist and activist, deta...
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Format: eBook
Language: English
Published:
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2025.
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Historical Materialism Book Series ;
340.
Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
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Call Number: DD247.B7
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Political Intellectuals and Networks between Science and Politics
- 1 The state of research
- 2 The body of source material
- 3 Intellectual History as the social history of ideas- dimensions and definitions
- 4 Networks, circles and journals: intellectual groupings and institutions
- 5 The structure of the present work
- 1 From National Socialism to Social Democracy: Learning Processes and Defining Influences in Extreme Times
- 1 Promises of national glory and educated bourgeois-aristocratic obstinacy: A culturally elitist German youth between democracy, Nazism, and war
- 2 Reorientation and the search for meaning after the loss of a 'worldview': From war captivity to the decision to join the SPD
- 3 The University of Göttingen as a nexus of tension in a society in upheaval: Academic pursuits, university politics, and student activism at the onset of the Cold War
- 4 Intellectual ambitions between science and politics: New theoretical influences, political mentors, and first steps in the SPD
- 2 Left-Socialist Identity and Scientific-Political Perspectives: Between Social Democracy, Political Science, Radical Networks and Trade Unions
- 1 A socialist alternative beyond the existing power blocs? Unity initiatives and programmatic divisions among left socialists in the SPD (1954-60)
- 2 The arduous path to recognition as a political scientist: The historical council movement and party sociology as academic fields and political and theoretical interventions
- 3 Farewell to the SPD ? Syndicalist trends within the New Left amidst the interplay of political intervention and trade-union operational logic
- 4 Academic career or party career? Options and decisions
- 3 Dare to Be More Pragmatic! Power, Compromises and Perspectives of a Socialist Intellectual in Polarised Times
- 1 Unexpected opportunities in the political arena and internal conflicts: The SPD left, the 1968 movement, and the conquest of key institutional positions
- 2 Social-Democratic education policy: Balancing aspirations for co-determination, government-imposed restrictions, and conservative counter-mobilisation
- 3 Acid test of a programmatic party in government: Finding a compromise between 'traditionless pragmatism' and 'revolutionary rigorism'
- 4 The conservative 'trend reversal' and the orientation crisis of the SPD left amidst austerity, competing systems, and alternative movements
- 4 The (Un)stoppable Departure from Socialism: Conservative Supremacy, Red-Green Hopes, and the Triumph of Market Liberalism
- 1 Exploring the scope for a new reformism: The Social-Democratic programme in the era of neoliberal confrontation and Green-Alternative competition (1982-9)
- 2 A missed opportunity for the SPD ? The erosion of 'actually existing socialism' and resistance against an Anschluss to West Germany (1989-92)
- 3 What remains of socialism? 'Tradition-building', positional struggles and disappointments
- Summary: A Socialist Identity Caught Up in Tensions and Contradictions
- 1 Identity construction and intellectual and political self-conception
- 2 Relationship with Social Democracy
- 3 Engagement with Communism and the radical left
- 4 Scientific priorities and fields of action
- 5 Networks and reference groups
- 6 Socialist totality and left reformist strategy
- Bibliography
- Index.