Overview
- Series
- Modernism and--
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
- Locale
- Soviet Union
Germany - Contents
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Part One. Totalitarianism : What, When, How?
1. The Problem of the Modern
Unpacking totalitarian modernism
Two models of totalitarianism : genocide versus control
The conceptual limits of political religion theory
2. The Problem of Intellectual Antecedents
Antecedents as affinities
Antecedents as influences
Part Two. Three Totalitarian Currents
3. Utopianism
The view from Cold War liberalism
Communist utopianism
Nazism and utopianism
4. Scientism
Critical theory and the pathologies of reason
Nazi science?
Marxism, Stalinism and scientism
5. Revolutionary Violence
The revolutionary passion in French anti-totalitarian thought
The leftist orientation
The rightist orientation. - Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-311) and index.
Part One. Totalitarianism : What, When, How? -- 1. The Problem of the Modern -- Unpacking totalitarian modernism -- Two models of totalitarianism : genocide versus control -- The conceptual limits of political religion theory -- 2. The Problem of Intellectual Antecedents -- Antecedents as affinities -- Antecedents as influences -- Part Two. Three Totalitarian Currents -- 3. Utopianism -- The view from Cold War liberalism -- Communist utopianism -- Nazism and utopianism -- 4. Scientism -- Critical theory and the pathologies of reason -- Nazi science? -- Marxism, Stalinism and scientism -- 5. Revolutionary Violence -- The revolutionary passion in French anti-totalitarian thought -- The leftist orientation -- The rightist orientation.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780230252066
0230252060
9780230252073
0230252079 - Physical Description
- xvii, 321 pages ; 20 cm.
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects
- National socialism--Philosophy. Communism--Soviet Union--Philosophy. Totalitarianism--Philosophy. Civilization, Modern--20th century. Germany--Intellectual life--20th century. Soviet Union--Intellectual life. Politics and culture--Germany--History--20th century. Politics and culture--Soviet Union--History. Hitler, Adolf,--1889-1945--Political and social views. Stalin, Joseph,--1878-1953--Political and social views.
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