Politischer Idealismus

The volume enables a nuanced analysis of political idealism. It examines transhistorical norms, moral principles, and visionary ideas as the foundations of political orders. The contributions encompass performative, hermeneutic, critical, and practically constructive approaches, tracing epochal developments from antiquity to modernity, and addressing key authors as well as central themes such as justice, democracy, freedom, and the common good. It also engages with questions of institutionalization, contractualism, the Enlightenment, American and German Idealism, power and law, as well as contemporary perspectives. The book thus offers in-depth insights into the intellectual-historical foundations of normative political theory.