Format:
1 Online-Ressource (500 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
1400871298
,
9780691100203
,
9780691075556
,
9780691618890
,
9781400871292
Series Statement:
Princeton Legacy Library
Content:
Since the beginning of the current era of imperialism in the late nineteenth century, there has been a striking contrast between bourgeois political thought in Germany and the West. Walter Struve demonstrates how German political culture went through a phase in which great emphasis was placed on the establishment of a new political elite recruited on the basis of merit and skill, but ruling in an authoritarian way, and not controlled by the populace. He suggests that this type of elitism, many aspects of which were vital to the political culture of Nazi Germany, seems today to be widespread i
Content:
Part I. Intellectual Traditions; Part II. Liberals in Search of Elites; Part III. Conservatives in Search of Elites
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Struve, Walter, 1935- Elites against democracy : leadership ideals in bourgeois political thought in Germany, 1890-1933 Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, ©1973
Language:
English
Author information:
Struve, Walter 1935-
