著者
矢田 俊隆
出版者
JAPANESE POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION
雑誌
年報政治学 (ISSN:05494192)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.15, pp.61-76,en4, 1964-12-21 (Released:2009-12-21)

The object of this article is to illustrate the particular process of dynamic development which the German liberalist movements showed during the Revolution 1848/49. It is as follows.The intellectual liberals sought to realize their pre-March mission of drawing government and people together as the real agents of their ideals, were progressively isolated from both of these powers and were subsequently themselves torn apart into their three generic divisions as they fell into dependence upon divergent real interests or remained impotently suspended about them. The dissolution of intellectual liberalism under the solvent of conscious self-interest in its agents meant the beginning of the end for the philosophical approach to politics, and introduced the general reorientation toward the frank and direct appreciation of interests and power which the Revolution had shown to be decisive in German society and politics. Such fundamental reorientation led to a political positivism, which meant the intellectual decline of German liberalism, because it undermined the comprehensive appeal of the liberal political ethic and, in consequence, diminished the force of assault upon the prevailing state-system in Germany.