Political Theory

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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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11JUL 2022
campus nuremberg
‘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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