In this masterful work of historical scholarship, Zeev Sternhell,
an internationally renowned Israeli political scientist and
historian, presents a controversial new view of the fall of
democracy and the rise of radical nationalism in the twentieth
century. Sternhell locates their origins in the eighteenth century
with the advent of the Anti-Enlightenment, far earlier than most
historians. The thinkers belonging to the Anti-Enlightenment (a
movement originally identified by Friederich Nietzsche) represent a
perspective that is antirational and that rejects the principles of
natural law and the rights of man. Sternhell asserts that the
Anti-Enlightenment was a development separate from the
Enlightenment and sees the two traditions as evolving parallel to
one another over time. He contends that J. G. Herder and Edmund
Burke are among the real founders of the Anti-Enlightenment and
shows how that school undermined the very foundations of modern
liberalism, finally contributing to the development of fascism that
culminated in the European catastrophes of the twentieth century.
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