Das demokratische Zeitalter

The Democratic Age is the first comprehensive study of political thought in Europe that looks at the entire continent and provides the prehistory of today's much-discussed post-democratic status quo, without which it cannot be understood. It begins in 1918 and extends to the collapse of the real-socialist states of Eastern Europe in the late 1980s. In a masterful blend of intellectual and cultural history, Jan-Werner Müller traces the political ideas and minds that shaped the age of ideological extremes until 1945 and those that decisively determined the fate of Europe thereafter.