The book is currently out of stock
Pre-Modernity, Totalitarianism and the Non-Banality of Evil
A Comparison of Germany, Spain, Sweden and France
Authors
Parameters
- Pages
- 316 pages
- Reading time
- 12 hours
More about the book
The book offers a comparative historical analysis of totalitarianism, exploring why Spain succumbed to it during the Inquisition while France did not, and why Germany turned totalitarian in the previous century, unlike Sweden. The author extends the concept of totalitarianism into the pre-modern era, challenging Hannah Arendt's idea of the banality of evil. He proposes a new framework to explain the conditions under which states become totalitarian and the mechanisms that lead individuals to commit acts of evil.
Book purchase
Pre-Modernity, Totalitarianism and the Non-Banality of Evil, Steven Saxonberg
- Language
- Released
- 2020
- product-detail.submit-box.info.binding
- (Paperback)
We’ll notify you via email once we track it down.
Payment methods
- Title
- Pre-Modernity, Totalitarianism and the Non-Banality of Evil
- Subtitle
- A Comparison of Germany, Spain, Sweden and France
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Steven Saxonberg
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Released
- 2020
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 316
- ISBN13
- 9783030281977
- Description
- The book offers a comparative historical analysis of totalitarianism, exploring why Spain succumbed to it during the Inquisition while France did not, and why Germany turned totalitarian in the previous century, unlike Sweden. The author extends the concept of totalitarianism into the pre-modern era, challenging Hannah Arendt's idea of the banality of evil. He proposes a new framework to explain the conditions under which states become totalitarian and the mechanisms that lead individuals to commit acts of evil.