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Author Müller, Jan-Werner, 1970- author.

Title Contesting democracy : political ideas in twentieth-century Europe / Jan-Werner Müller
Published New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2011]
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Description 1 online resource (281 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates)
Contents The molten mass -- Interwar experiments : making peoples, remaking souls -- Fascist subjects : the total state and Volksgemeinschaft -- Reconstruction thought : self-disciplined democracies, 'people's democracies' -- The new time of contestation : towards a fatherless society -- Antipolitics, and the sense of an ending
Summary 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 Miller 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. Miller 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
Analysis UmU kursbok
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Democracy -- Philosophy -- History -- 20th century
Democracy -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
Ideology -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
Political science -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Democracy.
HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century.
Democracy
Democracy -- Philosophy
Ideology
Political science
Europe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2011011273
ISBN 9780300180909
030018090X
1280596090
9781280596094
9786613625922
6613625922