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Elites Against Democracy - Leadership Ideals in Bourgeois Political Thought in Germany, 1890-1933 (Paperback)
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Elites Against Democracy - Leadership Ideals in Bourgeois Political Thought in Germany, 1890-1933 (Paperback)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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Since the beginning of the current era of imperialism in the late
nineteenth century, there has been a striking contrast between
bourgeois political thought in Germany and the West. Walter Struve
demonstrates how German political culture went through a phase in
which great emphasis was placed on the establishment of a new
political elite recruited on the basis of merit and skill, but
ruling in an authoritarian way, and not controlled by the populace.
He suggests that this type of elitism, many aspects of which were
vital to the political culture of Nazi Germany, seems today to be
widespread in the West. The development of this concept of an
open-yet-authoritarian elite is approached through the analysis of
the political ideas and activities of nine elitists, among them Max
Weber, Walther Rathenau, and Oswald Spengler. The author relates
biography to intellectual, political, social, and economic history,
so that his work becomes a study in the political and social
context of intellectual history. Originally published in 1973. The
Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology
to again make available previously out-of-print books from the
distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These
editions preserve the original texts of these important books while
presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The
goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access
to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books
published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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