Modernism and Totalitarianism

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Rethinking the Intellectual Sources of Nazism and Stalinism, 1945 to the Present, Modernism and..

ISBN: 0230252060
ISBN 13: 9780230252066
Autor: Shorten, R
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: xvii, 321 S.
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.11.2012
Auflage: 1/2012
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: Gebunden

A significant study of a theme which persists in modern political life: the temptation of extremist political ambitionsAn original attempt at the synthesis of the empirical and theoretical literatures on totalitarianismContains discussions of a wide range of theorists of totalitarianism in the post-1945 period, from Karl Popper to François Furet

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Beschreibung

Modernism and Totalitarianism evaluates a broad range of post-1945 scholarship. Totalitarianism, as the common ideological trajectory of Nazism and Stalinism, is dissected as a synthesis of three modernist intellectual currents which determine its particular, inherited character.

Autorenporträt

RICHARD SHORTEN teaches political theory at the University of Birmingham, UK. His work focuses on the history of political ideas, with particular reference to twentieth-century Europe. He has published widely on the subject of totalitarianism.

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