Ideological Storms: Intellectuals, Dictators, and the Totalitarian Temptation - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9633863031 ISBN 13 : 9789633863039

Editeur : Central European University Press, 2019

Synopsis

This volume gathers authors who wrote important works in the fields of the history of ideologies, the comparative study of dictatorships, and intellectual history. The book is a state of the art reassessment and analysis of the ideological commitments of intellectuals and their relationships with dictatorships during the twentieth century. The contributions focus on turning points or moments of breakage as well as on the continuities. Though its focus is on an East-West comparison in Europe, there are texts also dealing with Latin America, China, and the Middle East giving the book a global outlook.

The first part of the book deals with intellectuals' involvement with communist regimes or parties; the second looks at the persistence of utopianism in the trajectory of intellectuals who had been associated earlier in their lives with either communism or fascism; the third tackles intellectuals' role in national imaginations from either the left or the right; and, the fourth ties late twentieth century phenomena to current phenomena such as the persistence of anti-Semitism in the West, the slow erosion of the values upon which the EU is built, the quagmire in Iraq, and China's rise in the post-Cold War era. The collection provides a comprehensive big-picture of intellectual genealogies and dictatorial developments.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Vladimir Tismaneanu is Professor of politics and Director of the Center for the Study of Post-communist Societies at University of Maryland (College Park). Bogdan C. Iacob is Post Doctoral Research Associate at the University of Exeter.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Central European University Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9633863031
• ISBN 13: 9789633863039
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 548
• Éditeur: Tismaneanu Vladimir, Iacob Bogdan C.
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