Hans J. Morgenthau, a founding proponent of political realism,
remains the central figure in international relations scholarship
of the twentieth century. His book Politics among Nations literally
defined the field in 1948 as it heralded the post--World War II
paradigm shift in American thinking about diplomacy. Yet when
Morgenthau died in 1980 at the age of seventy-six, no one present
at his funeral had an inkling about the first half of his life --
his education, his early productive career in Europe and America,
or the roots of his political philosophy. In the first and only
volume devoted to the intellectual formation of Morgenthau,
Christoph Frei draws upon an overwhelming abundance of resources --
including a lengthy paper trail of previously unseen diaries,
correspondence, notes, and manuscripts -- to disclose the
compelling story of a great mind in the making.
Frei identifies the bases of Morgenthau's ideas and clarifies
many misconceptions, including Morgenthau's link with Augustinian
thought, his relationship with Reinhold Niebuhr, and the impact of
major thinkers such as Max Weber, Hans Kelsen, and Carl Schmitt on
the scholar. He offers incontrovertible evidence of Friedrich
Nietzsche's predominant influence on Morgenthau. Resoundingly
praised in the original German, Hans J. Morgenthau is a brilliant
life study that presents the first coherent picture of the European
intellectual building blocks Morgenthau brought with him to
America.
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