Lorenz von Stein

Lorenz von Stein
Lorenz von Stein
Born(1815-11-18)18 November 1815
Eckernförde, Schleswig, Denmark
Died23 September 1890(1890-09-23) (aged 74)
Vienna, Austria-Hungary
NationalityGerman
Academic career
FieldPolitical economics
InstitutionUniversity of Vienna
Alma materUniversity of Kiel
Other notable studentsCarl Menger
InfluencesMarquis de Condorcet, Benjamin Constant, Robert von Mohl, Charles Fourier, G. W. F. Hegel, Henri de Saint-Simon, Jean de Sismondi
ContributionsWelfare state[1]

Lorenz von Stein (18 November 1815 – 23 September 1890) was a German economist, sociologist, and public administration scholar from Eckernförde. As an advisor to Meiji period Japan, his liberal[2][3][4][5][6][7] political views influenced the wording of the Constitution of the Empire of Japan[8] as well as major constitutional thinkers such as Rudolf von Gneist.[9]

According to Colin Gordon, Stein articulated a "vision of a liberal state as active historic partner in the making of civil society" and called for "a tabling of the question of class formation as part of the state's agenda."[10] Stein advocated a combination of constitutional liberal state with a welfare state,[9] and has been called the "intellectual father of the welfare state.[1] Stein and other Hegelian liberals, such as Robert von Mohl, also had a profound influence on American progressivism.[11]

  1. ^ a b Stolleis, Michael (2012). Origins of the German Welfare State: Social Policy in Germany to 1945. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 2–3.
  2. ^ Koslowski, Stefan (2017). "Lorenz von Stein as a disciple of Saint-Simon and the French Utopians". Revista europea de historia de las ideas políticas y de las instituciones públicas. 11.
  3. ^ Rosenblatt, Helena (2018). The Lost History of Liberalism: From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century. Princeton University Press. pp. 100–102.
  4. ^ Drozdowicz, Zbigniew (2013). Essays on European Liberalism. LIT Verlag Münster. pp. 100–110.
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  8. ^ Spaulding, Robert M. (1967). "Itō and Stein, 1882". Imperial Japan's Higher Civil Service Examinations. Princeton University Press. pp. 43–50. ISBN 9781400876235.
  9. ^ a b MacMillan, Catharine; Smith, Charlotte (2018). Challenges to Authority and the Recognition of Rights: From Magna Carta to Modernity. Cambridge University Press. p. 214.
  10. ^ Gordon, Colin (1991). The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality. University of Chicago Press. pp. 30-31.
  11. ^ Emerson, Blake (2015). "The Democratic Reconstruction of the Hegelian State in American Progressive Political Thought" (PDF). The Review of Politics. 77 (4): 545–574. doi:10.1017/S0034670515000571. S2CID 29295818. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2019.