Pre-Modernity, Totalitarianism and the Non-Banality of Evil A Comparison of Germany, Spain, Sweden and France /

• Main Author: Saxonberg, Steven (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Religion and sociology.; Religion and politics.; Political sociology.; Europe-Politics and government.; World politics.; Comparative politics.; Religion and Society.; Politics and Religion.; Political Sociology.; European Politics.; Political History.; Comparative Politics.

This book provides a comparative and historical analysis of totalitarianism and considers why Spain became totalitarian during its inquisition but not France; and why Germany became totalitarian during the previous century, but not Sweden. The author pushes the concept of totalitarianism back into t...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Cases of Totalitarianism
• Chapter 3: Explaining Evilness
• Chapter 4: France and the Non-Totalitarian Inquisition
• Chapter 5: Spain: Premodern Totalitarianism
• Chapter 6: Sweden
• Chapter 7: Nazi Germany and Non-Banal Evilness
• Chapter 8: Conclusion: The End?.