Great Lie Classic and Recent Appraisals of Ideology and Totalitarianism

Name: Great Lie Classic and Recent Appraisals of Ideology and Totalitarianism
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ISBN: 9781935191360

ISBN-10: 1935191365

ISBN-13: 9781935191360

Edition: 2011

Authors: F. Flagg Taylor, F. Flagg Taylor

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The Most Insightful and Profound Reflections on Totalitarian Tyranny Totalitarianism was the dominant phenomenon of the twentieth century. Deeply troubling questions endure regarding the nature of such tyrannical regimes: What enabled human beings to carry out such horrific crimes against their fellow man? What does the endurance of Communism reveal about human liberty? Why did human beings suffer rule by ideological lies for so long, and what kept them open to the truth? What are we to make of the relationship between totalitarianism and the foundational principles of democratic modernity? Some of the greatest minds of the twentieth century sought answers to these haunting questions. Now,…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Publication date: 8/15/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 698
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.60" tall
Weight: 1.936
Language: English



Introduction



Concepts



Totalitarian Religions (1952)




The Unique Character of a Totalitarian Society (1954)




The Power of the Powerless (1978)




On the Difficulty of Defining the Soviet Regime (1976)




Communist Totalitarianism: The Transatlantic Vagaries of a Concept (1984)




From Under the Rubble, What? (1992)




Nature



The Future of Secular Religions (1944)




Ideology and Terror: A Novel Form of Government (1953)




Our Muzzled Freedom (1975)




The Marxist Roots of Stalinism (1977)




The Image of the Body and Totalitarianism (1979)




National Socialism as a Political Religion (2000)




Origins



German Nihilism (1941)




Three Riders of the apocalypse (1950)




The Origins of Totalitarianism (1953)




Is Technological Civilization Decadent, and Why? (1975)




Politics and Conscience (1984)




Letters to Olga (1982)



lV



The Pill of Murti-Bing (1953)




The Smatterers (1975)




Aleksaridr Solzhenitsyn and European "Leftism" (1976)




A Treatise on Ticks (1979)




Ticks and Angels (1979)




The Hair Styles of Mieczyslaw Rakowskj (1983)




Dissent



Man, This Enemy (1953)




What Charter 77 Is and What It Is Not (1977)Jan Patocka



The Parallel Polis (1978, 1987)




The Power of the Powerless (1978)




Thoughts on "The Parallel Polis" (1987)




Jan Patocka versus Vaclav Benda (1989)Martin Palouï¿½



Lessons



Letters to Olga (1982)




We have ceased to see the Purpose (1993)




Moral Destruction (1998)




The Return of Political Philosophy (2000)




The Traces of a Wounded Animal (2000)




Totalitarianism: Between Religion and Science (2001)



Acknowledgments


Notes


Sources and Permissions


About the Contributors


Index