Modernism and Totalitarianism: Rethinking the Intellectual Sources of Nazism and Stalinism, 1945 to the Present 2012th Edition
Author(s): R. Shorten (Author)
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date: November 15, 2012
- Edition: 2012th
- Language: English
- Print length: 338 pages
- ISBN-10: 0230252079
- ISBN-13: 9780230252073
Book 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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“With detailed endnotes, an excellent primary and secondary bibliography, he synthesises the work of earlier theorists and offers an original analysis of totalitarianism for a new generation of readers. … Modernism and Totalitarianism will have a wide appeal to intellectual and political historians. Richard Shorten is to be commended for his analysis of the ‘shared ideological space’ of totalitarianism … .” (Siobhan Kattago, The European Legacy, Vol. 22 (2), 2017)
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'An extremely worthwhile book that constitutes a significant contribution to a much-discussed topic It meets an obvious need for a comprehensive survey among so many more specialised studies. I cannot think of any other work that quite does the job'
- Harry Redner, formerly Reader in Politics at Monash University
About the Author
RICHARD SHORTEN teaches political theory at the University of Birmingham, UK. His work focuses on the history of political ideas, with particular reference to twentieth-century Europe. He has published widely on the subject of totalitarianism.
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