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Modernism and totalitarianism :

0230252060 (hardback)

0230252079 (paperback)

9780230252066 (hardback)

9780230252073 (paperback)

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Modernism and totalitarianism :

[Book]

rethinking the intellectual sources of Nazism and Stalinism, 1945 to the present /

Richard Shorten

xvii, 321 pages ;

20 cm

Modernism and

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

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"What is totalitarianism? In what ways was it modern? Modernism and Totalitarianism argues that conventional theories of totalitarianism are too focused on the state and fail to take note of its ideological trajectory. The book analyses this trajectory, shared by Nazism and Stalinism, the two instances of totalitarianism in its "classical" form. The ideological trajectory was formed in the interaction of three currents of modernist thought: utopianism, scientism, and revolutionary violence. Developing first of all in the nineteenth century, and in reaction to the Enlightenment mainstream, each of these three currents contributed to the idea of the totalitarian New Man. The book considers a broad range of theoretical positions, including those associated with Cold War liberalism, critical theory, and recent anti-totalitarian thought in France, in order to develop these arguments."--Publisher's website

Hitler, Adolf,1889-1945-- Political and social views

Stalin, Joseph,1879-1953-- Political and social views

Civilization, Modern-- 20th century

Communism-- Soviet Union-- Philosophy

National socialism-- Philosophy

Politics and culture-- Germany-- History-- 20th century

Politics and culture-- Soviet Union-- History

Totalitarianism-- Philosophy

Germany, Intellectual life, 20th century

Soviet Union, Intellectual life

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Shorten, Richard,1977-

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