Dictatorship in history and theory : Bonapartism, Caesarism, and totalitarianism / edited by Peter Baehr, Melvin Richter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baehr, Peter, editor.

Richter, Melvin, 1921- editor.

Conference for the Study of Political Thought, issuing body.

Series:

Publications of the German Historical Institute.

Publications of the German Historical Institute

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dictatorship--History--Congresses.

Dictatorship.

Dictatorship--Europe--History--Congresses.

Authoritarianism--History--Congresses.

Authoritarianism.

Authoritarianism--Europe--History--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 308 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Dictatorship in History & Theory

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A distinguished group of historians and political theorists examine the complex relationship between nineteenth-century democracy, nationalism, and authoritarianism, paying especial attention to the careers of Napoleon I and III, and of Bismarck. An important contribution of the book is to consider not only the momentous episodes of coup d'etat, revolution, and imperial foundation which the Napoleonic era heralded, but also the contested political language with which these events were described and assessed. Political thinkers were faced with a battery of new terms - 'Bonapartism', 'Caesarism', and 'Imperialism' among them - with which to make sense of their era. As well as documenting the political history of a revolutionary age, the book examines a series of thinkers - Tocqueville, Marx, Max Weber, Antonio Gramsci, Carl Schmitt, and Hannah Arendt - who articulated and helped to reshare our sense of the political.

Contents:

Introduction / Peter Baehr and Melvin Richter

Part I. Bonapartism to its contemporaries

From Consulate to Empire : impetus and resistance / Isser Woloch

The Bonapartes and Germany / T.C.W. Blanning

Prussian conservatives and the problem of Bonapartism / David E. Barclay

Tocqueville and French nineteenth-century conceptualizations of the two Bonapartes and their empires / Melvin Richter

Marx's Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte : democracy, dictatorship, and the politics of class struggle / Terrell Carver

Bonapartism as the progenitor of democracy : the paradoxical case of the French Second Empire / Sudhir Hazareesingh

Part II. Bonapartism, Caesarism, totalitarianism : twentieth-century experiences and reflections

Max Weber and the avatars of Caesarism / Peter Baehr

The concept of Caesarism in Gramsci / Benedetto Fontana

From constitutional technique to Caesarist ploy : Carl Schmitt on dictatorship, liberalism, and emergency powers / John P. McCormick

Bonapartist and Gaullist heroic leadership : comparing crisis appeals to an impersonated people / Jack Hayward

The leader and the masses : Hannah Arendt on totalitarianism and dictatorship / Margaret Canovan

Part III. Ancient resonances

Dictatorship in Rome / Claude Nicolet

From the historical Caesar to the spectre of Caesarism : the Imperial Administrator as internal threat / Arthur M. Eckstein.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-88309-7

1-139-05242-X

1-280-45770-8

0-511-18598-7

0-511-18515-4

0-511-18784-X

0-511-31383-7

0-511-18691-6

OCLC:

271786884