Modernism and totalitarianism : rethinking the intellectual sources of Nazism and Stalinism, 1945 to the present

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Modernism and totalitarianism : rethinking the intellectual sources of Nazism and Stalinism, 1945 to the present

Richard Shorten

(Modernism and--)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-311) and index

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Description

Modernism and Totalitarianism evaluates a broad range of post-1945 scholarship. Totalitarianism, as the common ideological trajectory of Nazism and Stalinism, is dissected as a synthesis of three modernist intellectual currents which determine its particular, inherited character.

Table of Contents

Series Preface Acknowledgments Introduction PART I: TOTALITARIANISM - WHAT, WHEN, HOW? The Problem of the Modern The Problem of Intellectual Antecedents PART II: THREE TOTALITARIAN CURRENTS Utopianism Scientism Revolutionary Violence Conclusion Bibliography Index

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