Randfiguren? The methodological usefulness of marginal figures - Ernst Brandes’ and Franz Josias von Hendrich’s Assessments of the French Revolution as new perspectives on German conceptions of the Bürgertum
(2024)
Journal Article
Oergel, M. (2024). Randfiguren? The methodological usefulness of marginal figures - Ernst Brandes’ and Franz Josias von Hendrich’s Assessments of the French Revolution as new perspectives on German conceptions of the Bürgertum. Publications of the English Goethe Society, 93(1), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/09593683.2024.2308914
The article discusses two marginal political writers who were widely read and well respected by their contemporaries but are now either forgotten (Hendrich) or reduced to a historical footnote in the history of conservatism (Brandes). The aim is to i... Read More about Randfiguren? The methodological usefulness of marginal figures - Ernst Brandes’ and Franz Josias von Hendrich’s Assessments of the French Revolution as new perspectives on German conceptions of the Bürgertum.