Dictatorship in History and Theory: Bonapartism, Caesarism, and Totalitarianism (Publications of the German Historical Institute)

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Contents......Page 9
Contributors......Page 11
Preface......Page 13
I......Page 15
II......Page 21
III......Page 30
IV......Page 36
V......Page 38
PART I Bonapartism to Its Contemporaries......Page 41
a first step: consul for life......Page 43
a successor to bonaparte?......Page 48
the last stand of the old revolutionaries......Page 50
a ‘debate’ in the tribunate......Page 54
the senate responds......Page 61
2 The Bonapartes and Germany......Page 67
3 Prussian Conservatives and the Problem of Bonapartism......Page 81
I......Page 97
II......Page 99
III......Page 101
IV......Page 104
V......Page 108
VI......Page 112
conclusion......Page 115
5 Marx’s Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte......Page 117
marx and history......Page 119
marx and marxism......Page 122
marx and english prose......Page 132
conclusions......Page 135
6 Bonapartism as the Progenitor of Democracy......Page 143
the bonapartist territorial system......Page 146
centralization and its dysfunctions......Page 150
the empire’s decentralist response......Page 154
the resistance of the administrative centralists......Page 159
the balance sheet of bonapartist decentralism......Page 161
PART II Bonapartism, Caesarism, Totalitarianism......Page 167
7 Max Weber and the Avatars of Caesarism......Page 169
avatars of caesarism......Page 172
of politics and sociology: a tale of two discourses......Page 180
the qualities of the caesarist politician......Page 183
conclusion......Page 187
8 The Concept of Caesarism in Gramsci......Page 189
dictatorship between marxism and liberalism......Page 211
liberalism, exceptions, and the sovereign dictatorship of procedures......Page 224
conclusion......Page 232
10 Bonapartist and Gaullist Heroic Leadership......Page 235
the heroic variant of charismatic authority......Page 238
constitutionalizing the heroic leader......Page 241
the interdependence between personal and popular sovereignty......Page 246
heroic legends and institutional legacies......Page 249
11 The Leader and the Masses......Page 255
the leader......Page 259
the masses......Page 265
conclusion......Page 270
PART III Ancient Resonances......Page 275
12 Dictatorship in Rome......Page 277
I. “classical” or “regular” dictatorship......Page 279
II. dictatorship revived: sulla and caesar......Page 283
The Problems of Sullan Dictatorship......Page 284
The Meaning of the Sullan Dictatorship: Interpretations and Reality......Page 285
The Dictatorship of Caesar......Page 286
François Hinard and Claude Nicolet......Page 290
13 From the Historical Caesar to the Spectre of Caesarism......Page 293
Index......Page 313