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Totalitarianism and Philosophy (Hardcover)
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Totalitarianism and Philosophy (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Focus on Philosophy
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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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