Totalitarianism as Anti-modernity
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Abstract
Modernity refers to the means by which eighteenth-century Enlightenment political thinking came to inform European civilization in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Philosophically, it embraces a shift to humanism and secular reason, as originally exemplified by such theorists as John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, and Adam Smith.
Contents
- Unit 1:: The Emergence of the Modern West
- The Protestant Reformation and Its Aftereffects
- The Rebirth of Humanism in the West
- Crises of the Medieval World
- The Emergence of the Modern West - Review
- Unit 2:: The Growth of Western Civilization
- Commodity Trading and the Birth of an Atlantic Economy
- Spain, Portugal, and the Invention of Western Power
- The Emergence of the National Monarchy
- The Growth of Western Civilization - Review
- Unit 3:: From Scientific Revolution to Enlightenment
- The Newtonian Cosmos
- The Destabilization of the Spiritual Worldview
- The Copernican Revolution
- From Scientific Revolution to Enlightenment - Review
- Unit 4:: The Enlightenment
- Kant and the Redemption of Enlightenment
- From Locke to Jefferson
- The Enlightenment - Review
- Unit 5:: An Age of Revolution
- A New Historical Order
- Novus dux Napoleon
- The French Revolution
- An Age of Revolution - Review
- Unit 6:: The Triumph of Bourgeois Consciousness
- Romanticism
- Tradition versus Progress
- The Nation
- The Triumph of Bourgeois Consciousness - Review
- Unit 7:: Industrialization and Its Aftereffects
- From Textiles to Steam Engines
- Intellectual Responses to Industrial Modernity
- Marx and the Communist Manifesto
- Industrialization and Its After-effects - Review
- Unit 8:: The Apex of Modern Civilization
- New States and Old Problems
- Challenges from Without
- Challenges from Within
- The Apex of Modern Civilization - Review
- Unit 9:: New Imperialism
- Prelude to War
- Case Studies in New Imperialism
- Origins and Modes
- New Imperialism - Review
- Unit 10:: World War I
- The Suicide of the West
- Strategies and Operations
- Causes and Contingencies
- World War I - Review
- Unit 11:: Totalitarianism
- Communism in the Soviet Union
- Fascism in Western Europe
- Totalitarianism as Anti-modernity
- Totalitarianism - Review
- Unit 12:: World War II
- The Restoration of Modern Consciousness
- Expansions and Turning Points
- The Inescapable Path to War
- World War II - Review
- Unit 13:: The Cold War
- The Concept of a “Third” World
- The Western Response
- An Ideological Showdown
- The Cold War - Review
- Unit 14:: The West and the “Global” World
- Crises of Climate, Credit, and Historical Consciousness
- Terrorism and Popular Culture
- Imperialism Redefined
- The West and the “Global” World - Review
- Unit 15:: Postmodernism and the End of History
- The Meaning of the “End of the World”
- Lack of Credulity
- Post-historical Humanity
- Postmodernism and the End of History - Review