Concept
German Empire
Overview
German nation-state in Central Europe from 1871 to 1918
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The feudal state was the organ of the nobility for the oppression of the serfs and dependent farmers. The modern representative state is the tool of the capitalist exploiters of wage labor. At certain periods it occurs exceptionally that the struggling classes balance each other so nearly that the public power gains a certain degree of independence by posing as the mediator between them. The absolute monarchy of the…
Friedrich Engels, The origin of the family, private property, and the state
Names German Empire.
corner of the earth to-day--perhaps in Germany--who are disposed to believe in all seriousness that the world was put right two years ago,[1] and that all stern and gloomy views of life are now contradicted by "facts." The foundation of the New German Empire is, to them, the decisive blow that annihilates all the "pessimistic" philosophisers,--no doubt of it. To judge the philosopher's significance in our time, as…
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thoughts Out of Season, Part II
States what German Empire is; the author is tied to German Empire in the knowledge graph.
Democracy has always been the death agony of the power of organisation: already in “Human All-too-Human,” Part I., Aph. 472, I pointed out that modern democracy, together with its half-measures, of which the “German Empire” is an example, was a decaying form of the State. For institutions to be possible there must exist a sort of will, instinct, imperative, which cannot be otherwise than antiliberal to the point of…
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Twilight of the Idols
The author is tied to German Empire in the knowledge graph; names German Empire twice.
Philosophers who discussed German Empire
- Albert Schweitzer
- Georg Simmel
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Paul Carus
- Gershom Scholem
- Thomas Carlyle
- Carl Gustav Hempel
- Hans-Georg Gadamer
- Hans Reichenbach
- Mircea Eliade
- Eric Voegelin
- Max Weber
- Moritz Schlick
- Leo Strauss
- Oswald Spengler
- Walter Benjamin
- Reform Judaism
- Ludwig Klages
- Theodor W. Adorno
- Carl Schmitt
- Hans Jonas
- Ernst Cassirer
- Ernst Bloch
- Rudolf Carnap
Related ideas
- Revolutions of 1848
- French language
- Antisemitism
- Vladimir Lenin
- Holy See
- Hungarian language
- German Confederation
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Empire of Japan
- Kenya
- Library of Congress
- Marxism
- Liberalism
- Great Depression
- Muslims
- Militarism
- Dutch language
- Russian Empire
- Netherlands
- Nobel Prize
- Nazi Germany
- Namibia
- Ottoman Empire
- Welfare state
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Conservatism.