Restoration of Political Science, Volume I - Imperium Press

by Karl Ludwig von Haller, Jack Vien (Introduction)

Karl Ludwig von Haller’s Restoration of Political Science is one of the key texts of the Counter-Enlightenment, but has never been available in English until now. In this first volume, he fatally wounds liberal political theory, taking on Grotius, Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Kant, and others one by one. Haller shows how their ideas were perfectly embodied in the French Revolution before its total failure and culmination in the exact opposite of liberalism—the absolute personal rule of Napoleon.

Out of the ashes Haller raises a sensible and workable theory—patrimonialism, the personal rule of a strong man, a social state in which private law is the only law. Along the way, he refutes many of our most sacred popular sovereignty, the social contract, the Hobbesian state of nature, and the delegation of power for national interests, and offers his famous critique of Roman law.

In the Restoration of Political Science , we get a powerful antidote to liberalism, with personal power as the source of political authority and legitimacy. Haller is one of the giants of European counter-revolutionary thought, and now his insights are available to the English-speaking world.

Genres: Politics, Philosophy, Nonfiction

344 pages, Paperback

Published April 9, 2023

Reviews

[Ziggy · Rating 5 out of 5]

I understand everything now and just need the other 5 volumes so that I can understand everything more

[Ajax · Rating 4 out of 5]

Restoration of Political Science is the gateway for a new understanding of what Political Science means and entails, written back in the XIXth Century after the Napoleonic Wars, a Swiss Jurist by the name of Ludwig Von Haller wrote six volumes on the nature of Governance, Political Systems, Power, Private vs Public law, Justice and the role that plays Religion in society, it may appear as just another old boring political book written by someone who disliked the worst aspects of the French Revolution but alas, this book, simple in its conception, writing and understanding, gives you a general perspective about the nature of politics, in such a different and radical way that it may inadvertly be considered a dangerous political revolutionary work for the current establishment (reality has an ironic sense of humor).

There were ideologies that came into being centuries after his death that wanted to solve the dilemma of this newly founded State Absolutism (which was the successor of Absolute Monarchies); such as Communism, Anarchism, Socialism (XIXth Century) Anarcho-Capitalism, Libertarianism and Minarchism (XXth Century), among others, but all of this proposed alternatives offer a mediocre solution, full of errors/contradictions and wishfulfilment on the nature of human behavior, they still directly or indirectly believe in the Omniscience of the State.

Haller having lived in a world previously to the development and rise of major ideologies had the advantage to see through his insight and experience, not only the origin of States, but their development, consolidation and posterior degeneration (through the Political Sophism which started after the English Civil War and the events which sparkled the French Revolution) which gives him a more respectable aura, authority and legitimacy since this is the only work of Political Science that offers a considerate alternative towards the problem of the Absolutism of the State and its ill effects on Western Society.

[Diwan Mal · Rating 1 out of 5]

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