Totalitarianism and Political Religions Volume III: Concepts for the Comparison of Dictatorships - Theory & History of Interpretations

ISBN-13: 9780415542487 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 428 str.

Hans Maier

Opis

This title provides a comprehensive overview of key theories and theorists of totalitarianism and of political religions from Hannah Arendt and Raymond Aron, to Leo Strauss and Simone Weill.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: On the Interpretation of Totalitarian Rule  2. The Classical Understanding of Tyranny and Despotism  3. The New Approaches  4. On the Concept and Theory of Political Religions  5. Fascism and Non-Democratic Regimes  6. Interpreters of Totalitarianism: A Lexicographical Survey  7. Bibliographic Index

O autorze

Hans Maier, born in 1931 in Freiburg im Breisgau, is Professor Emeritus in Political Science and the Theory of Religion at the University of Munich. He was the Bavarian Minister of Culture and Science from 1970 to 1986 and President of the Central Committee of German Catholics from 1976 to 1986. Major publications include Revolution und Kirche (1959), in English, Revolution and Church: The Early History of Christian Democracy, 1789-1901 (1969). Also Die ältere deutsch Staats- und Verwaltungslehre (1966), Die christliche Zeitrechnung (1991); Politische Religionen (1995); Welt ohne Christentum - was wäre anders? (1999) and Das Doppelgesicht des Religiösen: Religion – Gewalt – Politik (2004). This is the second volume of the three volume set on Totalitarianism and Political Religions.