State Liberalism or Civil Liberalism: the Controversy between Wilhelm von Humboldt and Hardenberg

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2017

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liberalism State Prussian reform movement civil society Hardenberg Wilhelm von Humboldt

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Liberal egalitarianism

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Pauline Clochec, « State Liberalism or Civil Liberalism: the Controversy between Wilhelm von Humboldt and Hardenberg », Papers in Political Economy, ID : 10670/1.0771b6...

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After 1789, two theories and liberal strategies are opposed in Germany: a state liberalism based on the need to modernize society through a voluntarist action of the government to overcome the traditional social structures, and a civil liberalism insisting on the contrary on the autonomy of civil society and the need to restrict state intervention. This opposition within liberalism is embodied by the controversy between Humboldt and Hardenberg, two representatives of the Prussian Reform Movement. German liberalism is constructed as a space crossed by polemics through this problem of the possibility of an autonomous civil society.JEL Codes :?B12, E61, N93

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