Karl Ludwig von Haller

Karl Ludwig von Haller
Born1 August 1768
Died20 May 1854 (1854-05-21) (aged 85)
Solothurn, Solothurn, Switzerland
NationalitySwiss
Era19th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolConservatism
Notable ideas
Patrimonialism, private law theory of the state, critique of Roman law
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Karl Ludwig von Haller (1 August 1768 – 20 May 1854) was a Swiss jurist, statesman and political philosopher. He was the author of Restauration der Staatswissenschaft (Restoration of Political Science, 1816–1834), a book which gave its namesake to the Restoration period after the Congress of Vienna, and which Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel strongly criticized in §258 of Elements of the Philosophy of Right.

Von Haller's work, which was burnt during the Wartburg Festival, was a highly systematic defense both of the principles of dynastic legitimacy and monarchy founded on territorial lordship, as well as of pre-modern republics like those of the Swiss city-states, and considered one of the most consistent rejection of modern political ideas of the social contract, public law, and state sovereignty.

  1. ^ Bonacina, Giovanni, “Anticipazioni della teoria della Restaurazione secondo Carl Ludwig von Haller,” Rivista Storica Italiana 122 (2010): 500–59.

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