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Autore |
Backes Uwe <1960-, > |
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Titolo |
Political extremes : a conceptual history from antiquity to the present / / Uwe Backes |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-135-25943-7 |
1-135-25944-5 |
1-282-57646-1 |
9786612576461 |
0-203-86725-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (312 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge studies in extremism (p. [231]-282) and democracy |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Right and left (Political science) - History |
Human rights - History |
Conservatism - History |
Radicalism - History |
Democracy - History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Originally published in German: Gottingen : Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2006. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Series editors' preface; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 Extremes, mean, moderation and constitutional mixture in Antiquity and the Middle Ages; 3 Extremes and the tradition of the mixed constitution from early humanism to the age of democratic revolutions; 4 Extreme ideologies in the political laboratory of the nineteenth century; 5 Extremism at the beginning of the 'age of extremes'; 6 Extreme terms in the political language of German ideocracies |
7 Extremism as an element of the official/semi-official language of the Federal Republic of Germany8 Lines of development of the extremism concept in the twentieth century; 9 Political extremism: Final results, classification of terms and outlook; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The Western tradition of the constitutional state, with its ancient roots, defines political extremes as the epitome of that what must be |
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absolutely rejected. It highlights tyranny, despotism, despotic rule, non-autonomy, ruthless enforcing of interests as 'extreme', contrasting this to a virtuous mean which guarantees moderation. In this volume, the culmination of twenty years of extensive research, Uwe Backes provides a conceptual history of the notions ""extreme"" and ""extremism"" from antiquity to the present day. The terminological history of political extremes had been |
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