Contesting Democracy _ Political Ideas in Twentieth-Century Europe

Mueller, Jan-Werner

ISBN 10: 0300194129 / ISBN 13: 9780300194128

Edité par Yale University Press, New Haven, 2013

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Contesting Democracy _ Political Ideas in Twentieth-Century Europe
• Éditeur: Yale University Press, New Haven
• Date de parution: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0300194129
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780300194128
• Reliure: Paperback
• Édition: Paperback Octavo.
• État de l'article: Very good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
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Synopsis

In this brilliant guide to modern European political ideas and thinkers spans the twentieth century, the author illuminates both the twentieth-century's ideological extremes and how Europeans built lasting liberal democracies in the second half of the century.

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 Müller 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.

Müller 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 1960s and neoliberalism, ending with a critical assessment of today's self-consciously post-ideological age.

À propos de l?auteur

Jan-Werner Muller teaches politics at Princeton University. His previous books include "A Dangerous Mind: Carl Schmitt in Post-War European Thought" and "Another Country: German Intellectuals, Unification, and National Identity," both published by Yale University Press.