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TRUTH AND TRAGEDY

TRUTH AND TRAGEDY

A TRIBUTE TO HANS J. MORGENTHAU

Edited by
Kenneth Thompson and Robert J. Myers

With the Assistance of Robert Osgood and Tang Tsou

With a New Postscript: Bernard Johnson's Interview with
Hans J. Morgenthau

Original edition 1977 by The New Republic Book Co., Inc.
Published 1984 by Transaction Books

Published 2019 by Routledge
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First issued in hardback 2019

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

This edition copyright 1984 by the Council on Religion and International Affairs, by agreement with The New Republic Book Co., Inc.
postscript 1984 by Matthew and Susanna Morgenthau

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

Notice:
Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.

Library of Congress Catalog Number: 81-5667

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Main entry under title:

Truth and tragedy.

Reprint. Originally published: A tribute to Hans Morgenthau. Washington, D.C.: New Republic Book Co., 1977.
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Morgenthau, Hans Joachim, 1904- Addresses, essays, lectures. 2. Political scienceAddresses, essays, lectures. 3. International relationsAddresses, essays, lectures. I. Morgenthau, Hans Joachim, 1904- . II. Thompson, Kenneth W., 1921- . III. Myers, Robert John, 1924
JC251.M6T74 1984 327.0924 [B] 81-5667
ISBN 0-87855-866-7 (pbk.) AACR2

ISBN 13: 978-1-138-53994-5 (hbk)
ISBN 13: 978-0-87855-866-7 (pbk)

CONTENTS

by Hans J. Morgenthau

by Kenneth Thompson

by Robert E. Osgood

by Tang Tsou

by Louis J. Halle

by Norman A. Graebner

by Richard A. Falk

by Marcus Raskin

by Roger L. Shinn

by George Liska

by Milton Rakove

by Robert J. Myers

by Michael Selzer

by Charles M. Hardin

by Richard J. Barnet

by Gerald Stourzh

by Erich Hula

by Herbert Butterfield

by Leo Gross

by John G. Stoessinger

by Peter Jankowitsch

by Harold P. Ford

by Jacques Freymond

by Nils rvik

by Adam Watson

by Alfred J. Hotz

by Francisco Cuevas Cancino

T his book is only the first to be produced on the unique body of work and personal impact of Professor Hans J. Morgenthau. The articles collected here show the many areas his fertile mind has touched. We have no doubt that his genius will flower through the ages, as men and nations grapple with the problems and politics that will persist as long as mankind exists.

The contributors to this volume all have known Professor Morgenthauas student, colleague, or associatein his lifelong dedication to the study of the philosophy and practice of international relations. They all gave generously of their time. And equally as important, they demonstrated a cooperative spirit that made it possible to edit their articles into this tribute. In most cases it was necessary to cut the essays somewhat because of the confines of space; the editors accept the responsibility for those changes. Some contributions could not be used because of their length, a fact that we report with regret.

The origins of this book go back to a suggestion by Michael Selzer that a collection of papers on Professor Morgenthau would be welcome. He took the initiative in bringing together Kenneth Thompson, Robert Osgood, and Tang Tsou. Hannah Arendt, before her untimely death, also served as a member of the small group who planned the volume. She was to have written a summary essay pulling together, if possible, some of the main themes that emerged. As a close friend of Morgenthau, her contribution would have added another dimension, which the editors regret is missing from the volume. The main burden of the identification of contributors and the assignment of topics fell to Kenneth Thompson and Helen Danner, his able and devoted administrative assistant. The editors would also like to thank Martin Peretz, president of the New Republic Book Company, for his support of this project.

It is our hope that this festschrift will lead those who have not had the opportunity to know Professor Morgenthau personally to become interested in his scholarship and to understand and put to use the wisdom that is the foundation of his work.

THE EDITOR

BY HANS J. MORGENTHAU

M y first political memories go back to the Tripolitan War of 1911 between Italy and Turkey and the First Balkan War of 1912 between Bulgaria, Greece, and Serbia, on the one hand, and Turkey, on the other. I sympathized with the enemies of Turkey and was particularly fascinated by the Bulgarian siege of the Turkish fortress of Adrianople. I acquired the sheet music of the Bulgarian national anthem and played it on the piano. Every day I would mark on a map the changing positions of the contending armies with differently colored pins. Later, my favorite playthings were toy soldiers in their various historic uniforms, with which I reenacted the historic battlesfrom Cannae to Waterloothat we were discussing in school.

However, these were matters of curiosity without purpose, significant only because of a youthful and idle minds choice of foreign policy and warfare, among so many other possible choices, anticipating the direction and the intellectual interest the mature mind would take. What deeply interested me as a teenager, replacing this ineffectual curiosity and these childish games, were philosophy and literature. I wanted to become a writer, perhaps a professor, maybe even a poet. Most certainly, I did not want to become a run-of-the-mill lawyer or teacher. In September 1922, I had the opportunity of coming to terms with my vague aspirations and expectations when, as a senior in the Gymnasium, I was assigned a German composition with the title: What I hope for my future and the foundations for that hope. Here are the relevant passages:

my hopes for the future move into two directions. I hope for the lifting of the pressure to which I am exposed by the social environment, and I hope to find a direction and a purpose for my future activities. The latter cannot be realized before the former is fulfilled.

My relationship to the social environment is determined by three facts: I am a German, I am a Jew, and I have matured in the period following the war. Certain groups within our society and, moreparticularly, the socially dominant ones, are inclined to hold responsible for all changes and deficiencies of our period of history that segment of our society to which I belong. Regardless of the merits of these accusations, one thing is certain: 1 am innocent of what the Jews are reproached with. The accusations that are directed against me as a Jew are totally unjustified. Hence, I consider the hostile actions evoked by these accusations, such as social ostracism destructive of the ties of love and friendship or brutal insults, as a crying injustice and a dishonoring humiliation. Since I am not able to play the role of the suffering martyr and am not, like many others, sufficiently callous and indifferent to bear injustice and humiliation in silence, there remains for me only the struggle against the representatives of this movement. The stronger the pressure from outside becomes, the more violent and one-sided will be my reaction to this movement and its representatives, i.e., the intellectual and socially dominant group. 1 shall find myself in total opposition to that social group, and my intellectual attitude toward them will be purely critical and negative. By rejecting one of their principles I will be led toward the rejection of all their ideas and the opposition to all their institutions. Embittered by loneliness of many years, excluded from all the pleasures of youth, expelled from my FatherlandI shall be only too easily tempted to lend a willing ear to those ideas of the international struggle against bourgeois society and for the denied human rights.

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