Routledge | Totalitarianism And Philosophy (2020 EN)

Author: Alan Haworth
Full Title: Totalitarianism And Philosophy
Publisher: Routledge; 1st edition (November 20, 2019)
Year: 2020
ISBN-13: 9780367438265 (978-0-367-43826-5), 9780367438258 (978-0-367-43825-8)
ISBN-10: 0367438267, 0367438259
Pages: 112
Language: English
Genre: Philosophy
File type: PDF (True)
Quality: 10/10
Price: £44.99


When Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin first came to power in the 1930s, their regimes were considered by many to represent a new and perplexing phenomenon. They were labelled ‘totalitarian’. But is ‘totalitarianism’ genuinely new, or is the word just another name for something old and familiar, namely tyranny?

This is the first question to be addressed by Alan Haworth in this book, which explores the relevance of philosophy to the understanding of totalitarianism. In the course of the discussion, definitions are tested. Is it coherent to think of totalitarianism as the imposition of a ‘total state’, or of ‘total control’? Could it even be that the idea of totalitarianism is a ‘non-concept’?

Examining the work of the totalitarian philosophers Giovanni Gentile and Carl Schmitt, the idea of ‘totalitarianism by other means’ as represented in dystopian fiction, and the philosophy of Hannah Arendt, Totalitarianism and Philosophy is essential reading for all students and scholars of political philosophy.

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