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Political extremes : a conceptual history from antiquity to the present /

The Western tradition of a sovereign state, which roots go back to antiquity, inherited a centre vouching for virtuous moderation. This book compares this tradition with what it quintessentially objects to: political extremes.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Backes, Uwe, 1960-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
Colección:Routledge studies in extremism and democracy.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Series editors' preface; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 Extremes, mean, moderation and constitutional mixture in Antiquity and the Middle Ages; 3 Extremes and the tradition of the mixed constitution from early humanism to the age of democratic revolutions; 4 Extreme ideologies in the political laboratory of the nineteenth century; 5 Extremism at the beginning of the 'age of extremes'; 6 Extreme terms in the political language of German ideocracies.