Elites Against Democracy
Walter. Struve
Bok Engelsk 2015 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Princeton : : Princeton University Press, , 2015.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (500 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - CONTENTS; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I. INTELLECTUAL TRADITIONS ; One, Patterns in the Development of German Elite Theories During the Nineteenth Century; PART II. LIBERALS IN SEARCH OF ELITES ; Two. The Challenge of the 1890's; Three, Friedrich Naumann: From Social Monarchy to Liberal Democracy; Four. Max Weber: Great Men, Elites, and Democracy; Five. Walther Rathenau: Toward a New Society?; Six. Leonard Nelson: The Rule of the Just; PART III. CONSERVATIVES IN SEARCH OF ELITES; Seven. Conservatives and Neoconservatives; Eight. Oswald Spengler: Caesar and Croesus. - Nine, Count Hermann Keyserling and His School of Wisdom: Grand Seigneurs, Sages, and RulersTen. Edgar J. Jung: The Quest for a New Nobility; Manquee of the Intelligentsia; Twelve. Ernst Jiinger: Warriors, Workers, and Elite; Thirteen. The Sources of National Socialist Elitism; Bibliographical Essay; Index. - Since the beginning of the current era of imperialism in the late nineteenth century, there has been a striking contrast between bourgeois political thought in Germany and the West. Walter Struve demonstrates how German political culture went through a phase in which great emphasis was placed on the establishment of a new political elite recruited on the basis of merit and skill, but ruling in an authoritarian way, and not controlled by the populace. He suggests that this type of elitism, many aspects of which were vital to the political culture of Nazi Germany, seems today to be widespread i
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| ISBN | 0691075557. - 0691100209
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