Das demokratische Zeitalter

"The Democratic Age" is the first comprehensive study of political thought in Europe to appear since the end of the Cold War and to focus on the entire continent. It begins in 1918 and extends to the collapse of the communist or real-socialist states of Eastern Europe in the late 1980s. In a masterful blend of intellectual and cultural history, enriched by a wealth of highly lively biographical sketches of influential thinkers of all stripes, some of them forgotten today, Jan-Werner Müller traces the political ideas and minds that shaped the age of ideological extremes up to 1945 and those that decisively determined the fate of Europe thereafter. Max Weber is treated as well as the masterminds of fascism, the Frankfurt School and "1968" as well as neoconservative think tanks, such as the Mont Pelerin S.