Contesting democracy : political ideas in twentieth-century Europe / / Jan-Werner Muller
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| Autore: |
Muller Jan-Werner <1970->
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| Titolo: |
Contesting democracy : political ideas in twentieth-century Europe / / Jan-Werner Muller
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| Pubblicazione: | New Haven, CT, : Yale University Press, c2011 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 321.8 |
| Soggetto topico: | Democracy - Philosophy - History - 20th century |
| Democracy - Europe - History - 20th century | |
| Ideology - Europe - History - 20th century | |
| Political science - Europe - History - 20th century | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 -- Acknowledgements |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Contesting democracy |
| ISBN: | 1-280-59609-0 |
| 9786613625922 | |
| 0-300-18090-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910822160503321 |
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