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Political extremes : a conceptual history from antiquity to the present

Uwe Backes
Tracing the history of the concept of political extremism from Ancient Greece to the present day, this is an invaluable resource for scholars of democracy, extremism and political sociology
Print Book, English, 2010
Routledge, London, 2010
History
xiii, 297 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
9780415473521, 9780203867259, 0415473527, 0203867254
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1. Introduction
2. Extremes, mean, moderation and constitutional mixture in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
3. Extremes and the tradition of the mixed constitution from early humanism to the age of democratic revolutions
4. Extreme ideologies in the political laboratory of the nineteenth century
5. Extremism at the beginning of the 'age of extremes'
6. Extreme terms in the political language of German ideocracies
7. Extremism as an element of the official/semi-official language of the Federal Republic of Germany
8. Lines of development of the extremism concept in the twentieth century
9. Political extremism : final results, classification of terms and outlook
Originally published in German: Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2006
Translated from the German