Geschichte des politischen Denkens 4/2

The political culture of the Western world in a broad overall view. From the Greeks and their discovery of politics and democracy, through the Romans and the Christian world, to the present, marked by the struggle for human rights and totalitarianism at the same time, the entire spectrum of political thought is presented. Volume 4/1: Beginning with the dystopias of Aldous Huxley and George Orwell, the thought of Max Weber and Carl Schmitt is explained, as well as the neoclassical political philosophy of Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss. Extensive chapters also illuminate political thought in Russia and China, the Conservative Revolution, and Italian Fascism and National Socialism. Includes brief biographies and extensive bibliographies of primary and secondary literature.