Modernism and Totalitarianism [electronic resource] : Rethinking the Intellectual Sources of Nazism and Stalinism, 1945 to the Present /
Shorten, R.author.
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.
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Cover; Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Totalitarianism - What, When, How?; 1 The Problem of the Modern; Unpacking totalitarian modernism; Two models of totalitarianism: structural and genocidal; The conceptual limits of political religion theory; 2 The Problem of Intellectual Antecedents; Antecedents as affinities; Antecedents as influences; Part II: 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 scientism5 Revolutionary Violence; The revolutionary passion in French anti-totalitarian thought; The leftist orientation; The rightist orientation; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945
Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953
Russia—History.
Europe, Eastern—History.
Europe—History.
History, Modern.
World politics.
Historiography.
Political science.
Russian, Soviet, and East European History.
European History.
Modern History.
Political History.
Historiography and Method.
Political Science.