"The Making of Totalitarian Thought emphasizes the importance of previously neglected socio-political writing and neatly unpacks sophisticated intellectual ideas. This will be an indispensable guide for students and will make a contribution to debates on humankind and society."-…
The totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century reveal disturbing and uncomfortable facts about human nature, social life, and moral progress. Totalitarianism, ironically, came at a time when the 'spirit of modernity' was in full swing and human po tential was supposedly at it…
The totalitarian systems that arose in the twentieth century presented themselves as secular. Yet, as the author of this book argues, they themselves functioned as religions. The author presents an intellectual history of the rise of these political religions, tracing a set of i…
