Political extremes : a conceptual history from antiquity to the present / / Uwe Backes

• Autore: Backes Uwe <1960-, >
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (312 p.)
• Disciplina: 320.509
• Soggetto topico: Right and left (Political science) - History; Human rights - History; Conservatism - History; Radicalism - History; Democracy - History
• Note generali: Originally published in German: Gottingen : Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2006.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: The 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Political extremes
• ISBN: 1-135-25943-7; 1-135-25944-5; 1-282-57646-1; 9786612576461; 0-203-86725-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781195203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge studies in extremism and democracy.