The Rise of Totalitarian Democracy.

Talmon, Jacob

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“…58 Even thinkers like George Sabine, who accepted Talmon's basic principles and also believed that one should talk about two distinct democratic traditions, 59 felt uncomfortable with the mono-casual explanation that casts abstract ideas alone as explaining the actual power of totalitarianism and also argued Talmon ''exaggerates the rigidity of the ideological relationship between totalitarianism and any assumption of 'natural order'''. 60 The impossibility to separate Talmon's historical narratives from their normative lessons, and the fact that he emphasized he was dealing with the past from the vantage point of the present, helped Talmon enjoy wide ''lay'' readership. And yet it led professional historians to be more reserved.…”

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Priest or Jester? Jacob L. Talmon (1916–1980) on history and intellectual engagement

Dubnov

2008

History of European Ideas

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This essay provides a general introduction to the special number on Jacob L. Talmon . The essay sketches the outlines of Talmon's intellectual biography, beginning with his study of the origins of totalitarian democracy, moving through his analysis of nationalism and political messianism, and ending with his study of the ideological clash of the 20th century. The essay raises the question of whether Talmon should be seen as a thinker wishing to defend existing traditions (i.e. a ''priest''), or as a radical anti-authoritarian skeptic (i.e. a ''jester''). Moreover, being both an anti-nationalist liberal, and a zionist at the same time, Talmon, the essay shows, was aware of the fact his own stance was problematic and at times even paradoxical. The last section of the essay presents the seven essays, which are included in the special issue. r

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Priest or Jester? Jacob L. Talmon (1916–1980) on history and intellectual engagement

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Totalitarian public consciousness in a post-totalitarian society

Vainshtein

1994

Communist and Post-Communist Studies

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Captives of Sovereignty

Havercroft

2011

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A picture of sovereignty holds the study of politics captive. Captives of Sovereignty looks at the historical origins of this picture of politics, critiques its philosophical assumptions and offers a way to move contemporary critiques of sovereignty beyond their current impasse. The first part of the book is diagnostic. Why, despite their best efforts to critique sovereignty, do political scientists who are dissatisfied with the concept continue to reproduce the logic of sovereignty in their thinking? Havercroft draws on the writings of Hobbes and Spinoza to argue that theories of sovereignty are produced and reproduced in response to skepticism. The second part of the book draws on contemporary critiques of skeptical arguments by Wittgenstein and Cavell to argue that their alternative way of responding to skepticism avoids the need to invoke a sovereign as the final arbiter of all political disputes.

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The Rise of Totalitarian Democracy.

Cited by 14 publications

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Priest or Jester? Jacob L. Talmon (1916–1980) on history and intellectual engagement

Priest or Jester? Jacob L. Talmon (1916–1980) on history and intellectual engagement

Totalitarian public consciousness in a post-totalitarian society

Captives of Sovereignty

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