Kruska

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23JUN 2025
campus nuremberg
New Article: “As gently as the ripe apple falls from the tree”
A new essay by Dr. Alexander Kruska, entitled “As gently as the ripe apple falls from the tree”: Political Rule, Rightful Government, and the Founding of the American Republic in Prussian Old-Conservatism, has recently been published. The piece appears in the edited volume Representations and Uses of the American Revolution in Past and Present, published […]
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24JUN 2024
campus nuremberg
Guest Lecture at Nuremberg Campus: “The ‘Zeitenwende’ in Civics Education”
On June 18, Hauptmann Philipp Glaser, Youth Information Officer of the Bundeswehr, gave a guest lecture in the Social Studies Education program at FAU’s Nuremberg campus at the invitation of the Political Science department. Under the title „Die ‘Zeitenwende’ im Politikunterricht“ (A New Era in Civics Education), Mr. Glaser provided a comprehensive overview of the […]
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11JUL 2022
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‘As gently as the ripe apple falls from the tree’ – Lecture on the American Revolution by Alexander Kruska at BAA Conference 2022
On 9 July 2022, Dr. Alexander Kruska gave a lecture on the interpretation of the American Republic in 19th century’s German conservative thought at the annual conference of the Bavarian American Academy (BAA) in Munich. The international conference investigated how the American Revolution functioned as a usable past, inspiring social movements, informing both state- and […]
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30SEP 2021
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New entries to FAU’s Eric Voegelin Library
In May, FAU’s Eric Voegelin Library acquired valuable new research material collected over decades by Prof Dr Jürgen Gebhardt and Prof Dr Klaus Vondung. The Library is located at FAU’s Institute of Political Science, at the Chair of Political Philosophy, Theory and History of Ideas, in Erlangen and is dedicated to research in Eric Voegelin’s […]
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29SEP 2021
campus nuremberg
“Military dictatorship as the ‘reign of the mightier’” – New article by Alexander Kruska
The article Military dictatorship as the ‘reign of the mightier’: Karl Ludwig von Haller’s organicist concept of natural order and autocratic rule by Dr Alexander Kruska was published by Routledge as part of the anthology Dictatorship in the Nineteenth Century: Conceptualisations, Experiences, Transfers. The article outlines Karl Ludwig von Haller’s perception of Napoleon Bonapartes regime […]The article Military dictatorship as the ‘reign of the mightier’: Karl Ludwig von Haller’s organicist concept of natural order and autocratic rule by Dr Alexander Kruska was published by Routledge as part of the anthology Dictatorship in the Nineteenth Century: Conceptualisations, Experiences, Transfers. The article outlines Karl Ludwig von Haller’s perception of Napoleon Bonapartes regime […]
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20AUG 2020
campus nuremberg
Social Studies Education launches e-learning module in 2020/21
The BMBF-funded project “How to read and write” at the Institutes of Political Science and Sociology develops an e-learning module for FAU’s Social Studies Education Programme (Politik und Gesellschaft). The project, supervised by Dr Ronald Staples and Dr Alexander Kruska, connects the disciplines of Political Science and Sociology as the core subjects of Social Studies […]
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