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200 10$aPolitical extremes $ea conceptual history from antiquity to the present /$fUwe Backes
210  1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2010.
215   $a1 online resource (312 p.)
225 0 $aRoutledge studies in extremism (p. [231]-282) and democracy
300   $aOriginally published in German: Gottingen : Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2006.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aBook 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
327   $a7 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
330   $aThe Western tradition of the constitutional state, with its ancient roots, defines political extremes as the epitome of that what must be absolutely rejected. It highlights tyranny, despotism, despotic rule, non-autonomy, ruthless enforcing of interests as 'extreme', contrasting this to a virtuous mean which guarantees moderation. In this volume, the culmination of twenty years of extensive research, Uwe Backes provides a conceptual history of the notions ""extreme"" and ""extremism"" from antiquity to the present day.  The terminological history of political extremes had been
410  0$aRoutledge studies in extremism and democracy.
606   $aRight and left (Political science)$xHistory
606   $aHuman rights$xHistory
606   $aConservatism$xHistory
606   $aRadicalism$xHistory
606   $aDemocracy$xHistory
615  0$aRight and left (Political science)$xHistory.
615  0$aHuman rights$xHistory.
615  0$aConservatism$xHistory.
615  0$aRadicalism$xHistory.
615  0$aDemocracy$xHistory.
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