European political thought, 1815-1989 / Spencer M. Di Scala, Salvo Mastellone.

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Di Scala, Spencer [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1998.
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xiii, 257 pages ; 24 cm

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    This book provides an overview of the political ideas that have shaped the modern world from the fall of Napoleon to the collapse of the Berlin Wall. The combined effort of an American and a European scholar, European Political Thought, 1815-1989 gives a balanced account not only of a range of political theories that shaped modern times but also of the historical context from which these ideologies were born. Beginning with post-Revolutionary France, the authors examine Restoration models and utopianism, liberalism from its earliest days through its evolution into today's apparently victorious modern ideology, the progress and problems of socialism, anarchism, and other movements crucial to European history. They also handle critical ideologies that have received limited attention in other English-language overviews: nineteenth-century Jacobinism, the ideology of democratic national revolution, French and Italian popular nationalism, the influence on social science of politics, and antiparliamentarianism. In addition, the book includes clear, concise discussions of major twentieth-century totalitarian movements - Communism, Fascism, and Nazism - and of the major opponents of the one-party state. Chapters on postwar Western Marxism, East-European theoretical resistance to Soviet Communism, and Contemporary European political thought in the post-Cold War world round out the work.
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-243) and index.
    Contents
    • From Elites to Masses
    • Restoration Models and Utopian Constructions, 1815-1830
    • The Political Context
    • Working Models
    • The Utopians
    • Early Liberalism
    • Early Continental Liberalism
    • Benjamin Constant (1767-1830)
    • French Liberals
    • Hegel: From Civil Society to State
    • The French Revolution: Importance and Limitations
    • Civil Society
    • From Civil Society to State
    • Jacobin Equality and National Liberation
    • Filippo Buonarroti (1761-1837)
    • Giuseppe Mazzini (1805-1872)
    • Democracy, Society, and Liberalism
    • Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)
    • John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
    • Mid-Century Liberalism
    • Liberal Democracy
    • Liberal Democrats
    • The Liberal Party
    • Liberal Society
    • Modern Liberalism
    • The Class Struggle: Socialism, Communism, and Social Democracy
    • Beginnings: From Associationism to Socialism
    • The Class Struggle Comes of Age: Young Marx
    • "State Socialism": Rodbertus and Lassalle
    • Marx's Capital and the First International
    • Social Democracy
    • Eduard Bernstein (1850-1932)
    • The Bernstein Debate: Antonio Labriola (1843-1904)
    • The Bernstein Debate: Karl Kautsky (1854-1938)
    • Orthodoxy Versus Revisionism
    • Anarchism
    • Pierre Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865)
    • Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876)
    • Beyond Anarchism
    • Social Science and Politics
    • Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)
    • Community and Society
    • The Authoritarian State and Antiparliamentarism
    • Louis Napoleon and Caesarism
    • Auguste Comte (1798-1857)
    • A New Model.
    ISBN
    • 081331738X
    • 9780813317380
    • 0813317398 ((pbk.))
    • 9780813317397 ((pbk.))
    LCCN
    97031708
    OCLC
    37615367
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