TY - BOOK AU - Sternhell,Zeev AU - Maisel,David TI - The anti-enlightenment tradition SN - 9780300156331 AV - JC573.2.E85 S843 2010 U1 - 320.52094 22 PY - 2010///] CY - New Haven PB - Yale University Press KW - Conservatism KW - Europe KW - History KW - Enlightenment KW - Right and left (Political science) KW - Political science KW - 18th century KW - 19th century KW - 20th century KW - Conservatisme KW - Histoire KW - Siècle des Lumières KW - fast KW - Gegenaufklärung KW - gnd KW - Aufklärung KW - Kritiek (algemeen) KW - gtt KW - Verlichting (cultuurgeschiedenis) KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The clash of traditions -- The foundations of a different modernity -- The revolt against reason and natural rights -- The political culture of prejudice -- The law of inequality and the war on democracy -- The intellectual foundations of nationalism -- The crisis of civilization, relativism, and the death of universal values at the beginning of the twentieth century -- The anti-enlightenment of the Cold War N2 - "In this masterful work of historical scholarship, Zeev Sternhell, an internationally renowned Israeli political scientist and historian, presents a controversial new view of the fall of democracy and the rise of radical nationalism in the twentieth century. Sternhell locates their origins in the eighteenth century with the advent of the Anti-Enlightenment, far earlier than most historians." "The thinkers belonging to the Anti-Enlightenment (a movement originally identified by Friedrich Nietzsche) represent a perspective that is antirational and that rejects the principles of natural law and the rights of man. Sternhell asserts that the Anti-Enlightenment was a development separate from the Enlightenment and sees the two traditions as evolving parallel to one another over time. He contends that J.G. Herder and Edmund Burke are among the real founders of the Anti-Enlightenment and shows how that school undermined the very foundations of modern liberalism, finally contributing to the development of fascism that culminated in the European catastrophes of the twentieth century."--Book jacket UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=302152 ER -