Mass Dictatorship and Modernity [electronic resource] /
Kim, M.editor.
Schoenhals, M.editor.
Mass Dictatorship and Modernity is the second volume in the 'Mass Dictatorship' series. A transnational, academic research venture, it interrogates mass dictatorship in a broad historical context, focusing on the emergence of modernity through interactions of center and periphery, empire and colony, and democracy and dictatorship on a global scale.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction: Mass Dictatorship and the Radical Project for Modernity; Part I Radical Projects for Modernisation; 2 Mass Dictatorship: A Transnational Formation of Modernity; 3 Mass Dictatorship and the 'Modernist State'; 4 Nebulous Nexus: Modernity and Perlustration in Maoist China; 5 Staging the Police: Visual Presentation and Everyday Coloniality; Part II The Public Sphere and Mass Dictatorship; 6 Habermas, Fascism, and the Public Sphere
7 Total War Mobilisation and the Transformation of the National Public Sphere in Japan, 1931-458 Between Liberalism and National Socialism: The Historical Role of Volunteer Firemen Associations in Austria as a Public Sphere; 9 Colonial Publicness as Metaphor; 10 The Colonial Public Sphere and the Discursive Mechanism of Mindo; Part III Modern Subjectification and Agency; 11 Models of Selfhood and Subjectivity: The Soviet Case in Historical Perspective; 12 The End of the Weimar Republic: Individual Agency, Germany's 'Old Elites', and the 'Crisis of Classical Modernity'
13 Total, Thus Broken: Chuch'e Sasang and North Korea's Terrain of SubjectivityIndex
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Mass Dictatorship and Modernity is the second volume in the 'Mass Dictatorship' series. A transnational, academic research venture, it interrogates mass dictatorship in a broad historical context, focusing on the emergence of modernity through interactions of center and periphery, empire and colony, and democracy and dictatorship on a global scale.
World politics.
Social history.
World history.
History, Modern.
History.
Political History.
Social History.
World History, Global and Transnational History.
Modern History.
History, general.