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Gregor, A. James (Anthony James), 1929- author.
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320.53 23
Publication Date
2012
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The totalitarian systems that arose in the twentieth century presented themselves as secular. Yet, as the author of this book argues, they themselves functioned as religions. The author presents an intellectual history of the rise of these political religions, tracing a set of ideas which include the belief that a certain text contains impeccable truths; notions of infallible, charismatic leadership; and the promise of human redemption through strict obedience, selfless sacrifice, total dedication, and unremitting labour. The book provides insight into the variants of Marxism, Fascism, and National Socialism that dominated our immediate past.
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Katznelson, Ira.
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320.01 22
Publication Date
2003
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During and especially after the Second World War, a group of leading scholars who had been perilously close to the war's devastation joined others fortunate enough to have been protected by distance in an effort to redefine and reinvigorate Western liberal ideals for a radically new age. Treating evil as an analytical category, they sought to discover the sources of twentieth-century horror and the potentialities of the modern state in the wake of western desolation. In the process, they devised strikingly new ways to understand politics, sociology and history that reverberate still. In t.
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Sajó, András.
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342 22
Publication Date
2003
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Gottlieb, Erika.
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809.39372 21
Publication Date
2001
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Tismaneanu, Vladimir.
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335.43 23
Publication Date
2012
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The Devil in History is a provocative analysis of the relationship between communism and fascism. Reflecting the author's personal experiences within communist totalitarianism, this is a book about political passions, radicalism, utopian ideals, and their catastrophic consequences in the twentieth century's experiments in social engineering. Vladimir Tismaneanu brilliantly compares communism and fascism as competing, sometimes overlapping, and occasionally strikingly similar systems of political totalitarianism. He examines the inherent ideological appeal of these radical, revolutionary politi.
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Finchelstein, Federico, 1975- author.
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320.533 23ENG20211202
Publication Date
2022
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"The Myth of Fascism argues that fascism can be seen as a new and murderous form of modern political myth. Freud, Borges, and Schmitt linked violent desires with the return of the historically repressed, that is, with myths repressed at an early stage of a society's development. Fascism enacted mythology in its longing for a "remote past," a simpler time superior to the present. The legitimacy of myth became the foundation for modern politics: fascist regimes considered themselves as actualizations of classical violent myths that thrived in the unconscious and that moved throughout history but also transcended it; myth, not history, legitimated violent actions. The book delineates the political and theoretical paths that led these thinkers to ponder the conceptual and practical relations between the victims of trauma and the ideological myths of their perpetrators and argues that their theories can help us reevaluate the sources of modern political violence"--
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Gottfried, Paul, 1941- author.
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320.533 23
Publication Date
2021
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"This book deals with the continuing appeal of antifascism as a political concept and as a tool for fighting a real or imagined fascist enemy. Antifascism has undergone significant changes in how it has understood and combatted a perceived fascist danger from the 1920s down to the present"--
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Zander, Patrick G., author.
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320.53309 23
Publication Date
2016
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This book is a valuable resource for understanding the character, development, and consequences of fascist dictatorships, analyzing the rise of fascism in Austria, Germany, Italy, Portugal, and Spain from 1919 through 1945.
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Voegelin, Eric, 1901-1985.
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320 22
Publication Date
2000
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Annotation Contains some of Voegelin's most provocative and interesting work, including his first publications after he fled Vienna; a summary of the two volumes on the growth of the race idea first published in 1933; his analysis of the diplomatic correspondence conducted between the Western powers, the papacy, and the Great Khans; a study of the grounds of much of modern philosophy and of all modern political ideologies; surveys of the state of political theory in the late 40s; studies of utopian thought; and a concluding essay that explores the intricacies of "Gnostic Politics." Edited by Sandoz, director of the Eric Voegelin Institute for American Renaissance Studies at Louisiana State University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com). Annotation Published Essays, 1940-1952, includes some of Eric Voegelin's most provocative and interesting essays. Containing his first publications after he fled Austria and settled in the United States as Hitler rose to power, this volume provides eyewitness commentary on the rise of National Socialism from the first days of World War II onward. A major study entitled "Growth of the Race Idea" presents a masterful summary of the two volumes on that subject Voegelin first published in 1933. A related essay of wide interest is entitled "Nietzsche, the Crisis, and the War". Another facet of Voegelin's thought incorporated within this volume of the Essays is his extraordinary analyses of the diplomatic correspondence conducted between the Western powers, the papacy, and the Great Khans, whose breathtaking expansion of the Mongol Empire for a time threatened to extinguish Western civilization itself and resulted in a two-century domination of Russia. Another major study is "The Origins of Scientism", an illuminating analysis of the grounds of much of modern philosophy and of all modern political ideologies. There are also surveys of the state of political theory in the late forties, penetrating studies of utopian thought with essays on Thomas More and Goethe, and a concluding essay that explores the intricacies of "Gnostic Politics"--A familiar theme from Voegelin's contemporaneous New Science of Politics. This volume of published essays shows Eric Voegelin at his most accessible best.
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Cooley, Alexander, 1972- author.
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958.043 23
Publication Date
2017
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"A penetrating look into the unrecognized and unregulated links between autocratic regimes in Central Asia and centers of power and wealth throughout the West. Weak, corrupt, and politically unstable, the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan are dismissed as isolated and irrelevant to the outside world. But are they? This hard-hitting book argues that Central Asia is in reality a globalization leader with extensive involvement in economics, politics and security dynamics beyond its borders. Yet Central Asia's international activities are mostly hidden from view, with disturbing implications for world security. Based on years of research and involvement in the region, Alexander Cooley and John Heathershaw reveal how business networks, elite bank accounts, overseas courts, third-party brokers, and Western lawyers connect Central Asia's supposedly isolated leaders with global power centers. The authors also uncover widespread Western participation in money laundering, bribery, foreign lobbying by autocratic governments, and the exploiting of legal loopholes within Central Asia. Riveting and important, this book exposes the global connections of a troubled region that must no longer be ignored"--
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Orwell, George, 1903-1950, author.
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FIC ORW
Publication Date
1962 1951 1945
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George Orwell's 1945 satire on the perils of Stalinism has proved magnificently long-lived as a parable about totalitarianism anywhere - and has given the world at least one immortal phrase: Everyone is equal, but some are more equal than others.
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Bowring, Finn, 1969-
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320.5 23
Publication Date
2011
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"Surveys the leading debates over Arendt's work, including totalitarianism, the public sphere and the nature of political responsibility"--Page 4 of cover.
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