Learning from Franz L. Neumann

Download or read book Learning from Franz L. Neumann written by David Kettler and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2019-07-26 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A labor lawyer and publicist of weight in the Weimar Republic, Franz Neumann devoted his 21-year exile, after 1933, to understanding the failure of arrangements supposed to be in the line of social progress. He sought to delineate a new conception of democracy as a vehicle of social change. A remarkably effective teacher in the last years of his life, Neumann was also a gifted learner, whose negotiations with a series of forceful thinkers enabled him to work toward a promising intellectual strategy in political thinking. Learning from Franz L. Neumann examines Neumann’s social and political theory in the context of his career as a practitioner, learner and teacher