Kurt Riezler
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"The view of international society which Kurt Riezler implicitly accepts himself, after examining alternative conceptions, is stated by him as follows: “Eternal and absolute enmity is fundamentally inherent in relations between peoples; and the hostility .." --Nineteen-fourteen: The Unspoken Assumptions (1968) by James Joll, this passage is also featured in Europe Since 1870: An International History. "Eternal and absolute enmity is fundamentally inherent in relations between peoples; and the hostility which we observe everywhere... is not the result of a perversion of human nature but is the essence of the world and the source of life itself." --Kurt Riezler, Europe Since 1870: An International History "Völker ideelle Feindschaft irgendwie zugrunde. Freundschaft der Völker kann dann nur zweierlei sein: Aufschub der Feindschaft, oder gemeinsame Feindschaft gegen einen Dritten, hat ihre Quelle also in der vorübergehenden Konstellation." --Grundzüge der Weltpolitik in der Gegenwart |
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Kurt Riezler (February 11, 1882 – September 5, 1955) was a German philosopher and diplomat. A top-level cabinet adviser in the German Empire and the Weimar Republic, he negotiated Germany's underwriting of Russia's October Revolution and authored the 1914 September Program which outlined German war aims during World War I. The posthumous publication of his secret notes and diaries played a role in the "Fischer Controversy" among German historians in the early 1960s.
Selected works
- 1906. Das zweite Buch der Pseudoaristotelischen Ökonomik. Berlin: Norddeutsche Buchdruckerei und Verlagsanstalt.
- 1907. Über Finanzen und Monopole im alten Griechenland. Berlin: Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht.
- 1913. Die Erforderlichkeit des Unmöglichen: Prolegomena zu einer Theorie der Politik und zu anderen Theorien. München: G. Müller Verlag
- 1914. Grundzüge der Weltpolitik in der Gegenwart (pseudonym J. J. Ruedorffer). Stuttgart & Berlin: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt. Grundzüge der Weltpolitik in der Gegenwart (1914); Grundzüge
- 1920. Die drei Krisen; eine Untersuchung über den gegenwärtigen politischen Weltzustand (pseudonym J. J. Ruedorffer). Stuttgart & Berlin: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt.
- 1924. Gestalt und Gesetz; Entwurf einer Metaphysik der Freiheit. München: Musarion Verlag.
- 1928. "Die Krise der `Wirklichkeit`." Die Naturwissenschaften, 16
- 1929. Über Gebundenheit und Freiheit des gegenwärtigen Zeitalters. Bonn: F. Cohen.
- 1934. Parmenides. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann.
- 1935. Traktat vom Schönen. Zur Ontologie der Kunst. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann.
- 1940. Physics and Reality; Lectures of Aristotle on Modern Physics at an International Congress of Science. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Complete text here: Kurt Riezler's "Physics and Reality" 1940
- 1941. "Play and Seriousness." Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 38, No. 19
- 1943. "Comment on the Social Psychology of Shame." American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 48, No. 4
- 1943. "Homer's Contribution to the Meaning of Truth." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 3, No. 3
- 1943. "On the Psychology of Modern Revolution." Social Research, Vol. 10
- 1944. "The Social Psychology of Fear." American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 49, No. 6
- 1944. "What Is Public Opinion?" Social Research, Vol. 11
- 1944. "Forward" to Max Wertheimer, "Gestalt Theory." Social Research, Vol. 11
- 1948. "The Historian and Truth." Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 45, No. 14
- 1949. "Reflections on Human Rights." Human Rights, Comments and Interpretations, UNESCO.
- 1951. Man, Mutable and Immutable: The Fundamental Structure of Social Life. Chicago: Regnery.
- 1954. "Political Decisions in Modern Society." Ethics, Vol. 64, No. 2
