The Anti-Enlightenment Tradition
By: Zeev Sternhell, David Maisel (Translator)
Hardcover | 1 December 2009 | Edition Number 1
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In this masterful work of historical scholarship, Zeev Sternhell, an internationally renowned Israeli political scientist and historian, presents a controversial new view of the fall of democracy and the rise of radical nationalism in the twentieth century. Sternhell locates their origins in the eighteenth century with the advent of the Anti-Enlightenment, far earlier than most historians.
The thinkers belonging to the Anti-Enlightenment (a movement originally identified by Friederich Nietzsche) represent a perspective that is antirational and that rejects the principles of natural law and the rights of man. Sternhell asserts that the Anti-Enlightenment was a development separate from the Enlightenment and sees the two traditions as evolving parallel to one another over time. He contends that J. G. Herder and Edmund Burke are among the real founders of the Anti-Enlightenment and shows how that school undermined the very foundations of modern liberalism, finally contributing to the development of fascism that culminated in the European catastrophes of the twentieth century.
Industry Reviews
"Few scholars comprehend the nexus between Counter-Enlightenment discourse and fascist ideology as well as Zeev Sternhell. In Anti-Enlightenment Tradition, Sternhell provides a series of provocative and disturbing arguments to demonstrate convincingly just how fraught and intimate those linkages were. Anti-Enlightenment Tradition represents a landmark and transformative contribution to the political history of ideas."-Richard Wolin, author of The Seduction of Unreason: The Intellectual Romance with Fascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernism
-- Richard Wolin"Zeev Sternhell is one of the most original scholars dealing with the historical roots of fascism and the European Right. This new book is a masterly synthesis which will generate vigorous debate and open new vistas for the understanding of contemporary political thought."-Saul Friedlander, author of The Years of Extermination -- Saul Friedlander
"In his The Anti-Enlightenment Tradition, Professor Sternhell has provided us another work of impeccable scholarship and intellectual stimulation. It is recommended to all who are interested in the fate of our civilization."-A. James Gregor, University of California, Berkeley
-- A. James Gregor"Everything Zeev Sternhell writes is powerful and challenging, and this book is no exception. At a time when Enlightenment values are again under attack, this history of anti-Enlightenment thought is important and timely."-Robert Tombs, University of Cambridge
-- Robert Tombs"In this learned and impassioned book, Zeev Sternhell mounts a major offensive against thinkers-be they conservative or liberal, from Edmund Burke to Isaiah Berlin-that he considers as the enemies of Enlightenment values. Even readers who disagree with Sternhell's thesis will have to admire the scope and force of his argument. This book is a crowning achievement of his long and distinguished career."-Susan Suleiman, author of Crisis of Memory and the Second World War -- Susan Suleiman
"Few people know the power of evil ideas more intimately than Zeev Sternhell."-Adam Kirsch, Tablet Magazine -- Adam Kirsch * Tablet Magazine *
ISBN: 9780300135541
ISBN-10: 0300135548
Published: 1st December 2009
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 544
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: Yale University Press
Country of Publication: US
Edition Number: 1
Dimensions (cm): 23.56 x 16.62 x 3.8
Weight (kg): 1.01
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