Modernism And Totalitarianism

Author : Richard Shorten
Publisher : Springer
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230252073

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Modernism and Totalitarianism by Richard Shorten Pdf

What is totalitarianism? In what ways was it modern? Modernism and Totalitarianism argues that conventional theories of totalitarianism are too focused on the state and fail to take note of its ideological trajectory. The book analyses this trajectory, shared by Nazism and Stalinism, the two instances of totalitarianism in its "classical" form. The ideological trajectory was formed in the interaction of three currents of modernist thought: utopianism, scientism, and revolutionary violence. Developing first of all in the nineteenth century, and in reaction to the Enlightenment mainstream, each of these three currents contributed to the idea of the totalitarian New Man. The book considers a broad range of theoretical positions, including those associated with Cold War liberalism, critical theory, and recent anti-totalitarian thought in France, in order to develop these arguments.

Author : R. Shorten
Publisher : Springer
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137284372

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Modernism and Totalitarianism by R. Shorten Pdf

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.

Author : Monica Cioli,Maurizio Ricciardi,Pierangelo Schiera
Publisher : Campus Verlag
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783593510309

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Traces of Modernism by Monica Cioli,Maurizio Ricciardi,Pierangelo Schiera Pdf

Traces of Modernism surveys the competing social and political visions that marked the transition from the nineteenth century to the twentieth, and the complex relationships and connections between these visions. A host of international contributors consider an extensive range of philosophical and artistic ideologies--from Bauhaus and Italian futurism to plans for totalitarian state-building--that bloomed in the wake of the World War One and the ensuing worldwide revolutions. These ideologies developed amid the uneasy backdrop of new kinds of international cooperation that were periodically punctuated by sharp bursts of fervid nationalism. At the center of each essay in Traces of Modernism stands the image of the machine, a metaphor for technological innovation and new systems of order that stood unfortunately ready for corruption by forces of authoritarianism.

Author : Jonas Kurlberg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350090521

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Christian Modernism in an Age of Totalitarianism by Jonas Kurlberg Pdf

With fascism on the march in Europe and a second World War looming, a group of Britain's leading intellectuals – including T.S. Eliot, Karl Mannheim, John Middleton Murry, J. H. Oldham and Michael Polanyi – gathered together to explore ways of revitalising a culture that seemed to have lost its way. The group called themselves 'the Moot'. Drawing on previously unpublished archival documents, this is the first in-depth study of the group's work, writings and ideas in the decade of its existence from 1938-1947. Christian Modernism in an Age of Totalitarianism explores the ways in which an important and influential strand of Modernist thought in the interwar years turned back to Christian ideas to offer a blueprint for the revitalisation of European culture. In this way the book challenges conceptions of Modernism as a secular movement and sheds new light on the culture of the late Modernist period.

Author : Leon Surette
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780773586659

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Dreams of a Totalitarian Utopia by Leon Surette Pdf

While these authors' political inclinations are well known and much discussed, previous studies have failed to adequately analyse the surrounding political circumstances that informed the specific utopian aspirations in each writer's works. Balancing a thorough knowledge of their works with an understanding of the political climate of the early twentieth century, Leon Surette provides new insights into the motivations and development of each writer's respective political postures. Dreams of a Totalitarian Utopia examines their political commentary and their correspondence with each other from 1910s to the 1950s. Contextualizing their political thought in a world troubled by two world wars, the Great Depression, and the Bolshevik Revolution, Surette traces their shared concerns and the divergent responses of each of these figures in the historical moment to the risk they perceived of democracies becoming the pawns of commercial and industrial elites, leading to war and mindless consumerism. They all leaned toward autocratic solutions, though Pound and Lewis eventually admitted their error.

Author : Slavoj Zizek,Slavoj Žižek
Publisher : Verso
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1859844251

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Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism? by Slavoj Zizek,Slavoj Žižek Pdf

Totalitarianism, as an ideological notion, has always had a precise strategic function: to guarantee the liberal-democratic hegemony by dismissing the Leftist critique of liberal democracy as the obverse, the twin, of the Rightist Fascist dictatorships. Instead of providing yet another systematic exposition of the history of this notion, _i_ek’s book addresses totalitarianism in a Wittgensteinian way, as a cobweb of family resemblances. He concludes that the devil lies not so much in the detail of what constitutes totalitarianism as in what enables the very designation totalitarian: the liberal-democratic consensus itself.

Author : Seyla Benhabib
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0742521516

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The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt by Seyla Benhabib Pdf

Interpreting the work of one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century, The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt rereads Arendt's political philosophy in light of newly gained insights into the historico-cultural background of her work. Arguing against the standard interpretation of Hannah Arendt as an anti-modernist lover of the Greek polis, author Seyla Benhabib contends that Arendt's thought emerges out of a double legacy: German Existenz philosophy, particularly the thought of Martin Heidegger, and her experiences as a German-Jewess in the age of totalitarianism. This important volume reconsiders Arendt's theory of modernity, her concept of the public sphere, her distinction between the social and the political, her theory of totalitarianism, and her critique of the modern nation state, including her life long involvement with Jewish and Israeli politics.

Author : Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen,Jacob Wamberg
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN : 8779345603

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Totalitarian Art and Modernity by Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen,Jacob Wamberg Pdf

In spite of the steadily expanding concept of art in the Western world, art made in twentieth-century totalitarian regimes û notably Nazi Germany, fascist Italy and the communist East Bloc countries û is still to a surprising degree excluded from main stream art history and the exhibits of art museums. In contrast to earlier art made to promote princely or ecclesiastical power, this kind of visual culture seems to somehow not fulfill the category of 'true' art, instead being marginalised as propaganda for politically suspect regimes. Totalitarian Art and Modernity wants to modify this displacement, comparing totalitarian art with modernist and avant-garde movements; confronting their cultural and political embeddings; anti writing forth their common genealogies. Its eleven articles include topics as varied as: the concept of totalitarianism and totalitarian art, totalitarian exhibitions, monuments and architecture, forerunners of totalitarian art in romanticism and heroic realism, and diverse receptions of totalitarian art In democratic cultures.

Author : Fabio Benzi,Roberta Ferrari,Eckhart J. Gillen,Sophie Goetzmann,Andrea Meyer-Fraatz,Eric Michaud,Silvio Pons,Anja Schloßberger-Oberhammer,Francescomaria Tedesco
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3593440903

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Traces of Modernism by Fabio Benzi,Roberta Ferrari,Eckhart J. Gillen,Sophie Goetzmann,Andrea Meyer-Fraatz,Eric Michaud,Silvio Pons,Anja Schloßberger-Oberhammer,Francescomaria Tedesco Pdf

Author : Peter Beilharz,Gillian Robinson,John F. Rundell
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0262521792

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Between Totalitarianism and Postmodernity by Peter Beilharz,Gillian Robinson,John F. Rundell Pdf

These thirteen articles provide theoretical and historically informed analyses of the powerful currents that are shaping the late twentieth-century political and cultural landscape.

Author : James Chappel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780674985858

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Catholic Modern by James Chappel Pdf

In 1900 the Catholic Church stood staunchly against human rights, religious freedom, and the secular state. According to the Catholic view, modern concepts like these, unleashed by the French Revolution, had been a disaster. Yet by the 1960s, those positions were reversed. How did this happen? Why, and when, did the world’s largest religious organization become modern? James Chappel finds an answer in the shattering experiences of the 1930s. Faced with the rise of Nazism and Communism, European Catholics scrambled to rethink their Church and their faith. Simple opposition to modernity was no longer an option. The question was how to be modern. These were life and death questions, as Catholics struggled to keep Church doors open without compromising their core values. Although many Catholics collaborated with fascism, a few collaborated with Communists in the Resistance. Both strategies required novel approaches to race, sex, the family, the economy, and the state. Catholic Modern tells the story of how these radical ideas emerged in the 1930s and exercised enormous influence after World War II. Most remarkably, a group of modern Catholics planned and led a new political movement called Christian Democracy, which transformed European culture, social policy, and integration. Others emerged as left-wing dissidents, while yet others began to organize around issues of abortion and gay marriage. Catholics had come to accept modernity, but they still disagreed over its proper form. The debates on this question have shaped Europe’s recent past—and will shape its future.

Author : Steven Saxonberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Comparative government
ISBN : 3030281965

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Pre-Modernity, Totalitarianism and the Non-Banality of Evil by Steven Saxonberg Pdf

This book provides a comparative and historical analysis of totalitarianism and considers why Spain became totalitarian during its inquisition but not France; and why Germany became totalitarian during the previous century, but not Sweden. The author pushes the concept of totalitarianism back into the pre-modern period and challenges Hannah Arendt's notion of the banality of evil. Instead, he presents an alternative framework that can explain why some states become totalitarian and why they induce people to commit evil acts. Steven Saxonberg is a professor in the Institute of European Studies, Faculty of Social Studies, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia, and the Institute of Public Policy and Social Work, Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. He did research for this book while at the Centre for Social and Economic Strategies, Charles University in Prague.

Author : Seyla Benhabib
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781461645412

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The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt by Seyla Benhabib Pdf

Interpreting the work of one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century, The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt rereads Arendt's political philosophy in light of newly gained insights into the historico-cultural background of her work. Arguing against the standard interpretation of Hannah Arendt as an anti-modernist lover of the Greek polis, author Seyla Benhabib contends that Arendt's thought emerges out of a double legacy: German Existenz philosophy, particularly the thought of Martin Heidegger, and her experiences as a German-Jewess in the age of totalitarianism. This important volume reconsiders Arendt's theory of modernity, her concept of the public sphere, her distinction between the social and the political, her theory of totalitarianism, and her critique of the modern nation state, including her life long involvement with Jewish and Israeli politics.

Author : David Roberts
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780801461453

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The Total Work of Art in European Modernism by David Roberts Pdf

In this groundbreaking book David Roberts sets out to demonstrate the centrality of the total work of art to European modernism since the French Revolution. The total work of art is usually understood as the intention to reunite the arts into the one integrated whole, but it is also tied from the beginning to the desire to recover and renew the public function of art. The synthesis of the arts in the service of social and cultural regeneration was a particularly German dream, which made Wagner and Nietzsche the other center of aesthetic modernism alongside Baudelaire and Mallarmé. The history and theory of the total work of art pose a whole series of questions not only to aesthetic modernism and its utopias but also to the whole epoch from the French Revolution to the totalitarian revolutions of the twentieth century. The total work of art indicates the need to revisit key assumptions of modernism, such as the foregrounding of the autonomy and separation of the arts at the expense of the countertendencies to the reunion of the arts, and cuts across the neat equation of avant-gardism with progress and deconstructs the familiar left-right divide between revolution and reaction, the modern and the antimodern. Situated at the interface between art, religion, and politics, the total work of art invites us to rethink the relationship between art and religion and art and politics in European modernism. In a major departure from the existing literature David Roberts argues for twin lineages of the total work, a French revolutionary and a German aesthetic, which interrelate across the whole epoch of European modernism, culminating in the aesthetic and political radicalism of the avant-garde movements in response to the crisis of autonomous art and the accelerating political crisis of European societies from the 1890s forward.

Author : Diana Mishkova,Marius Turda,Balázs Trencsényi
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789633860953

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Anti-modernism by Diana Mishkova,Marius Turda,Balázs Trencsényi Pdf

The last volume of the Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe 1770–1945 series presents 46 texts under the heading of "antimodernism". In a dynamic relationship with modernism, from the 1880s to the 1940s, and especially during the interwar period, the antimodernist political discourse in the region offered complex ideological constructions of national identification. These texts rejected the linear vision of progress and instead offered alternative models of temporality, such as the cyclical one as well as various narratives of decline. This shift was closely connected to the rejection of liberal democratic institutionalism, and the preference for organicist models of social existence, emphasizing the role of the elites (and charismatic leaders) shaping the whole body politic. Along these lines, antimodernist authors also formulated alternative visions of symbolic geography: rejecting the symbolic hierarchies that focused on the normativity of Western European models, they stressed the cultural and political autarchy of their own national community, which in some cases was also coupled with the reevaluation of the Orient. At the same time, this antimodernist turn should not be confused with rightwing radicalism—in fact, the dialogue with the modernist tradition was often very subtle and the anthology also contains texts which offered a criticism of 'modern' totalitarianism in an antimodernist key.