We are used to distinguishing the despotic regimes of the 20th century - communism, fascism, National Socialism, Maoism - very precisely according to place and time, origins and influences. But what should we call that which they have in common? On this question, there has been and is still a passionate debate.
This book documents the first international conference on this theme, a conference that took place in September of 1994 at the University of Munich. The book shows how new models for understanding political history arose from the experience of modern despotic regimes. Here, the...

We are used to distinguishing the despotic regimes of the 20th century - communism, fascism, National Socialism, Maoism - very precisely according to place and time, origins and influences. But what should we call that which they have in common? On this question, there has been and is still a passionate debate.
This book documents the first international conference on this theme, a conference that took place in September of 1994 at the University of Munich. The book shows how new models for understanding political history arose from the experience of modern despotic regimes. Here, the...

Available for the first time in English language translation, the third volume of Totalitarianism and Political Religions completes the set. It 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. Edited by the eminent Professor Hans Maier, it represents a major study, examining how new models for understanding political history arose from the experience of modern despotic regimes.

Where volumes one and two were concerned with questioning the...

Wenn Hans Maier beschreibt, wie aus Ccilia, der jungen Mrtyrerin aus der Zeit Marc Aurels, durch einen bersetzungsfehler die Patronin der Kirchenmusik wurde und wie Goethe, Herder, Wackenroder und Kleist sie unter die Deutschen brachten, ersteht ein Stck erlebter Musik-, Literatur-, Kunst- und Theatergeschichte. Bachs einsame Gestalt wird ebenso sichtbar wie Hndels internationale Wirkung. Und Mozart, in seinen Briefen betrachtet, wird als Persnlichkeit durchsichtig bis ins Innerste hinein: kein selbstmchtiger Gestalter, sondern ein Mensch mit seinem Auf und Ab, ganz heutig und gegenwrtig,...

Based upon a seminal conference on political religions, edited by eminent Professor Hans Maier, the book seeks to define the term and explore its application to the interpretation of a wide variety of totalitarian movements in Europe in the 20th Century.

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.

Hans Maiers Arbeiten widmen sich den Entwicklungen im Spannungsfeld von Religion, Kirche, Staat und Gesellschaft. Sie tun dies im kompetenten Rückblick auf wichtige geschichtliche Weichenstellungen wie in genauer Auseinandersetzung mit gegenwärtigen Problemen. So entsteht ein religiös-kirchliches Gegenwartspanorama mit der notwendigen historischen Tiefenschärfe.