03342nam 2200673Ia 450 991082216050332120200520144314.01-280-59609-097866136259220-300-18090-X10.12987/9780300180909(CKB)2550000000103627(StDuBDS)AH23056524(SSID)ssj0000688121(PQKBManifestationID)11481491(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000688121(PQKBWorkID)10762198(PQKB)11018393(MiAaPQ)EBC3420857(DE-B1597)485972(OCoLC)952755621(DE-B1597)9780300180909(Au-PeEL)EBL3420857(CaPaEBR)ebr10565456(CaONFJC)MIL362592(OCoLC)923598359(EXLCZ)99255000000010362720110315d2011 fy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrContesting democracy political ideas in twentieth-century Europe /Jan-Werner Muller1st ed.New Haven, CT Yale University Pressc20111 online resource (304 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-300-11321-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Illustrations --Introduction --1. The Molten Mass --2. Interwar Experiments: Making Peoples, Remaking Souls --3. Fascist Subjects: The Total State and Volksgemeinschaft --4. Reconstruction Thought: Self-Disciplined Democracies, 'People's Democracies' --5. The New Time of Contestation: Towards a Fatherless Society --6. Antipolitics, and the Sense of an Ending --Notes --Index --AcknowledgementsThis book is the first major account of political thought in twentieth-century Europe, both West and East, to appear since the end of the Cold War. Skillfully blending intellectual, political, and cultural history, Jan-Werner Müller elucidates the ideas that shaped the period of ideological extremes before 1945 and the liberalization of West European politics after the Second World War. He also offers vivid portraits of famous as well as unjustly forgotten political thinkers and the movements and institutions they inspired. Müller pays particular attention to ideas advanced to justify fascism and how they relate to the special kind of liberal democracy that was created in postwar Western Europe. He also explains the impact of the 1960's and neoliberalism, ending with a critical assessment of today's self-consciously post-ideological age.DemocracyPhilosophyHistory20th centuryDemocracyEuropeHistory20th centuryIdeologyEuropeHistory20th centuryPolitical scienceEuropeHistory20th centuryDemocracyPhilosophyHistoryDemocracyHistoryIdeologyHistoryPolitical scienceHistory321.8Muller Jan-Werner1970-427365MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910822160503321Contesting democracy4017083UNINA