Totalitarianism and Political Religions: Concepts for the Comparison of Dictatorships

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Series Title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Series Editor’s Preface......Page 10
Preface......Page 14
Contributors......Page 15
Part I  Totalitarianism......Page 20
1 The history of the concept of totalitarianism in Italy......Page 22
Discussion of Tomka’s paper......Page 98
2  Luigi Sturzo as a theorist of totalitarianism......Page 40
Discussion of the papers of Petersen and Schäfer......Page 50
3  Waldemar Gurian and the development of the concept of totalitarianism......Page 59
Discussion of Hürten’s paper......Page 69
4  Reflections on Russian totalitarianism......Page 72
5  Natural science in the Soviet Union under totalitarian conditions at the beginning of the 1930s......Page 77
Discussion of the papers of Gadshiiev and Alexeiev......Page 82
6  The other side of totalitarianism......Page 88
7  A glance at the history and present of the Bohemian countries......Page 105
Discussion of Rokyta’s paper......Page 112
Part II  Political religions......Page 119
8  The religious use of politics and/or the political use of religion......Page 121
Discussion of Linz’s paper......Page 139
9  Terror and salvation......Page 152
Discussion of Hover’s paper......Page 161
10  The concept of ‘political religions’ in the thought of Eric Voegelin......Page 168
11  The modern despotic regime and literature......Page 185
Part III  General discussion......Page 205
12  Concepts for the comparison of dictatorships......Page 207
13  Totalitarianism in eastern Europe and its consequences......Page 223
14  Despotism, ersatz religion, religious ersatz......Page 231
15  The conceptions of totalitarianism of Raymond Aron and Hannah Arendt......Page 235
16 Reflections on future totalitarianism research......Page 245
17  The historicity of totalitarianism......Page 254
18  Accomplishments and limitations of the totalitarianism theory......Page 259
Concluding discussion......Page 268
Part IV  Further perspectives......Page 294
19  Totalitarianism as a twentieth-century phenomenon......Page 296
20 National Socialism, Fascism and authoritarian regimes......Page 314
21  Religious and ecclesiastical structures in Communism and National Socialism, and the role of the writer......Page 336
22 Enlightenment and terror......Page 352
23  On Marxism, Christianity and totalitarianism......Page 361
Index......Page 368