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Author:

Shorten, Richard, 1977-

Title:

Modernism and totalitarianism : rethinking the intellectual sources of Nazism and Stalinism, 1945 to the present / Richard Shorten.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

xvii, 321 pages ; 20 cm.

Subject:

National socialism--Philosophy.
Communism--Soviet Union--Philosophy.
Totalitarianism--Philosophy.
Civilization, Modern--20th century.
Hitler, Adolf,--1889-1945--Political and social views.
Stalin, Joseph,--1879-1953--Political and social views.
Germany--Intellectual life--20th century.
Soviet Union--Intellectual life.
Politics and culture--Germany--History--20th century.
Politics and culture--Soviet Union--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-311) and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

0230252079 (paperback)
9780230252073 (paperback)
0230252060 (hardback)
9780230252066 (hardback)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)798615423

LCCN:

2012034978

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)