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Author Sternhell, Zeev, author.

Title The anti-enlightenment tradition / Zeev Sternhell ; translated by David Maisel.

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 532 pages)
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Physical Medium polychrome
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The clash of traditions -- The foundations of a different modernity -- The revolt against reason and natural rights -- The political culture of prejudice -- The law of inequality and the war on democracy -- The intellectual foundations of nationalism -- The crisis of civilization, relativism, and the death of universal values at the beginning of the twentieth century -- The anti-enlightenment of the Cold War.
Summary "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 Friedrich 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."--Book jacket.
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Subject Conservatism -- Europe -- History.
Conservatism.
Europe.
History.
Enlightenment.
Enlightenment.
Right and left (Political science)
Right and left (Political science)
Political science -- Europe -- History -- 18th century.
Political science.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Political science -- Europe -- History -- 19th century.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Political science -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Gegenaufklärung.
Aufklärung.
Kritiek (algemeen).
Verlichting (cultuurgeschiedenis).
Chronological Term 1700-1999
Geschichte 1680-1990
Geistesgeschichte 1680-1990
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Maisel, David, 1934- translator.
Added Title Anti-Lumières. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2009028654
Other Form: Print version: Sternhell, Zeev. Anti-Lumières. English. Anti-enlightenment tradition. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2010 9780300135541 (DLC) 2009019179 (OCoLC)317471716
ISBN 9780300156331 (electronic book)
0300156332 (electronic book)
9781282437456 (electronic book)
1282437453 (electronic book)
9780300135541 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0300135548 (cloth ; alkaline paper)