1st Edition

Totalitarian Democracy and After

Edited By Yehoshua Arieli, Nathan Rotenstreich Copyright 2003
    424 Pages
    by Routledge

    424 Pages
    by Routledge

    This volume, first published in 1984, contains the principal papers from a distinguished colloquium held in 1982. Its avowed purpose is to investigate further the notion of "totalitarian democracy" and to look at its repercussions in the contemporary world.

    Chapter 1 Jacob Talmon — An Intellectual Portrait, Yehoshua Arieli; Part 1 The Historiography and Philosophy of History in Relation to Historical Reality in Terms of Totalitarian Democracy; Chapter 2 Totalitarian Democracy and the Legacy of Modern Revolutions — Explanation or Indictment?, John Dunn; Chapter 3 Rival Revolutionary Ideals, James H. Billington; Chapter 4 Turn of the Century and Totalitarian Ideology, Karl Dietrich Bracher; Part 2 Totalitarian Democracy — Cultural Traditions and Modernization; Chapter 5 Totalitarian Democracy — Cultural Traditions and Modernization, S. N. Eisenstadt; Chapter 6 Christian Antecedents to Totalitarian Democratic Ideologies in the Early Modern Period, Michael Heyd; Chapter 7 Different Visions of Political Messianism in the Marxist European Tradition, Shlomo Avineri; Chapter 8 Russian and Western European Roots of Soviet Totalitarianism, Michael Confino; Chapter 9 The Historical Setting of German Totalitarianism, Moshe Zimmermann; Chapter 10 Political Traditions and Responses in Islam, Hava Lazarus-Yafeh; Chapter 11 Totalitarian Democratic Hermeneutics and Policies in Modem Jewish Religious Nationalism, Uriel Tal; Chapter 12 Traditional Constraints on Totalitarianism in Japan, Ben-Ami Shillony; Part 3 The Varieties and Transformations of Totalitarian Democracy in Different Countries and under Different Regimes; Chapter 13 Political Style and Political Theory-Totalitarian Democracy Revisited, George L. Mosse; Chapter 14 Political Style and Political Theory — Totalitarian Democracy Revisited Comments on George L. Mosse’s Paper, Yaron Ezrahi; Chapter 15 Totalitarianism and Tyranny, Michael Walzer; Chapter 16 Totalitarianism and Totality A Response to Michael Walzer, Yirmiyahu Yovel; Chapter 17 Aux sources de l’idéologie fasciste: La révolte socialist contre le matérialisme, Zeev Sternhell; Chapter 18 Ideas, Political Intentions and Historical Consequences — the Case of the Russian Revolution, Baruch Knei-Paz; Chapter 19 Totalitarianism and After in Communist Party Regimes, Richard Lowenthal; Chapter 20 Totalitarianism and After in Communist Party Regimes Comments on Richard Lowenthal’s Paper, Harold Z. Schiffrin; Part 4 The Impact of Totalitarian Democracy on the Jewish Situation; Chapter 21 Democracy and Its Negations — On Polarity in Jewish Socialism, Jonathan Frankel; Chapter 22 Zionism and Political Messianism, Israel Kolatt; Chapter 23 Zionism and Political Messianism Comments on Israel Kolatt’s Paper, Anita Shapira; Chapter 24 The Israeli Kibbutz — The Dynamics of Pragmatic Utopianism * Thanks are due to Professor M. Rosner for his helpful comments on the lecture on which this paper is based., Erik Cohen; Chapter 25 The Israeli Kibbutz — The Dynamics of Pragmatic Utopianism Comments on Erik Cohen’s Paper, Menachem Rosner; Chapter 26 The Context of Hannah Arendt’s Concept of Totalitarianism, Ben Halpern; Chapter 27 Between Rulers and Ruled — Some Aspects of the Jewish Tradition, Ephraim E. Urbach;

    Biography

    Yehoshua Arieli, Nathan Rotenstreich