Publisher's Synopsis
Politically and intellectually, Ernst Troeltsch had a significant role to play in the early years of the Weimar Republic. This volume presents 35 texts which document both Troeltsch's concern as a publicist with the new political, ecclesiastical and cultural order and his political role as a holder of parliamentary office for the German Democratic Party (Deutsche Demokratische Partei). In their breadth and comprehensiveness, the texts in this volume of the complete critical edition of Troeltsch's works demonstrate for the first time how Troeltsch linked politics and philosophy to ground the systemic political change in Germany within the context of European cultural history. Here, Troeltsch's intellectual signposts are open to a new reading in the extreme controversies about the legitimacy of a democratic political order in German society.
