Mass Dictatorship and Modernity

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction: Mass Dictatorship and the Radical Project for Modernity....Pages 1-9
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Mass Dictatorship: A Transnational Formation of Modernity....Pages 13-32
Mass Dictatorship and the ‘Modernist State’....Pages 33-52
Nebulous Nexus: Modernity and Perlustration in Maoist China....Pages 53-70
Staging the Police: Visual Presentation and Everyday Coloniality....Pages 71-97
Front Matter....Pages 99-99
Habermas, Fascism, and the Public Sphere....Pages 101-116
Total War Mobilisation and the Transformation of the National Public Sphere in Japan, 1931–45....Pages 117-142
Between Liberalism and National Socialism: The Historical Role of Volunteer Firemen Associations in Austria as a Public Sphere....Pages 143-158
Colonial Publicness as Metaphor....Pages 159-177
The Colonial Public Sphere and the Discursive Mechanism of Mindo....Pages 178-202
Front Matter....Pages 203-203
Models of Selfhood and Subjectivity: The Soviet Case in Historical Perspective....Pages 205-229
The End of the Weimar Republic: Individual Agency, Germany’s ‘Old Elites’, and the ‘Crisis of Classical Modernity’....Pages 230-252
Total, Thus Broken: Chuch’e Sasang and North Korea’s Terrain of Subjectivity....Pages 253-281
Back Matter....Pages 283-291