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Political Messianism : the romantic phase
Title
Political Messianism : the romantic phase / by J.L. Talmon.
Published
New York : Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers, ©1960.
Physical Description
607 pages ; 22 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 18, 2023
Series
Books that matter
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 519-582).
Contents
Introduction
Socialist messianism
From Technocracy to theocracy
Totalitarianism technocracy: Saint-Simon
The dialectic of romantic totalitarianism: the Saint-Simonist school
Individual and organization in utopia (Fourier, Considerant)
The totalitarian-democratic communist revolution: pre-1848 French communism
From contractual individualism (Fichte) to messianic pre-1848 Marxism
Fichte: from anarchism to totalitarian democracy and organicism
Marx: from totalitarian democracy to messianic communism
Messianic nationalism
From Papal to popular infallibility (Lemennais)
Gest die per Francos (Michelet)
People-messiah (Mazzini, Mickiewicz)
Universal creed and national uniqueness
Confrontations
The right of the day (de Maistre, Bonald, German romantics)
Liberalism versus democratic and socialist messianism
A confrontation
Ideas and realities
An industrial revolution?
The anatomy of misery
The growth of consciousness
The latent revolution
The right to revolution
Riot and plot
The radicalization of the underground
1848: the trial and the debacle
From riot to revolution
The revolution which failed to come off: a caricature of the great revolution
The abortive social revolution
The failure of the international revolution
Epilogue
Bonapartist dictatorship
Nationalist and liberal reorientation
Marxist orientation.
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