Balázs Trencsényi is Professor in the History Department at Central European University (CEU) and Director of the CEU Institute for Advanced Study in Budapest. His main field of interest is the history of modern political thought in East Central Europe. He is the co-author of A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe, vols. I-II (OUP, 2016-8) and co-editor of European Regions and Boundaries: A Conceptual History (Berghahn Books, 2017) and Brave New Hungary: Mapping the "System of National Cooperation” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019), among others.

In view of the inflation of crisis discourses since the global financial crisis, Trencsényi soberly states: "The disintegration of the liberal democratic synthesis becomes increasingly imaginable." His brilliant intellectual history of the interwar period thus provides orientation knowledge in a time whose complexity is particularly surprising to those who have never dealt with the 1920s and 1930s.

• 1: Introduction: The Faces of Crisis 2: The Morphology of Modern Crisis Discourses 3: Crisis of the Mind and Spirit 4: Crisis of Capitalism 5: Crisis of Social Cohesion 6: Crisis of Liberalism 7: Crisis of Democracy 8: Crisis of Socialism 9: Crisis of the Nation-State and the International System 10: Long Shadows of the Interwar Crises 11: Conclusion: The Politics of Crisis Select Bibliography Index

Balázs Trencsényi is Professor in the History Department at Central European University (CEU) and Director of the CEU Institute for Advanced Study in Budapest. His main field of interest is the history of modern political thought in East Central Europe. He is the co-author of A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe, vols. I-II (OUP, 2016-8) and co-editor of European Regions and Boundaries: A Conceptual History (Berghahn Books, 2017) and Brave New Hungary: Mapping the "System of National Cooperation” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019), among others.

In view of the inflation of crisis discourses since the global financial crisis, Trencsényi soberly states: "The disintegration of the liberal democratic synthesis becomes increasingly imaginable." His brilliant intellectual history of the interwar period thus provides orientation knowledge in a time whose complexity is particularly surprising to those who have never dealt with the 1920s and 1930s.

• 1: Introduction: The Faces of Crisis 2: The Morphology of Modern Crisis Discourses 3: Crisis of the Mind and Spirit 4: Crisis of Capitalism 5: Crisis of Social Cohesion 6: Crisis of Liberalism 7: Crisis of Democracy 8: Crisis of Socialism 9: Crisis of the Nation-State and the International System 10: Long Shadows of the Interwar Crises 11: Conclusion: The Politics of Crisis Select Bibliography Index

Balázs Trencsényi is Professor in the History Department at Central European University (CEU) and Director of the CEU Institute for Advanced Study in Budapest. His main field of interest is the history of modern political thought in East Central Europe. He is the co-author of A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe, vols. I-II (OUP, 2016-8) and co-editor of European Regions and Boundaries: A Conceptual History (Berghahn Books, 2017) and Brave New Hungary: Mapping the "System of National Cooperation” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019), among others.

In view of the inflation of crisis discourses since the global financial crisis, Trencsényi soberly states: "The disintegration of the liberal democratic synthesis becomes increasingly imaginable." His brilliant intellectual history of the interwar period thus provides orientation knowledge in a time whose complexity is particularly surprising to those who have never dealt with the 1920s and 1930s.

• 1: Introduction: The Faces of Crisis 2: The Morphology of Modern Crisis Discourses 3: Crisis of the Mind and Spirit 4: Crisis of Capitalism 5: Crisis of Social Cohesion 6: Crisis of Liberalism 7: Crisis of Democracy 8: Crisis of Socialism 9: Crisis of the Nation-State and the International System 10: Long Shadows of the Interwar Crises 11: Conclusion: The Politics of Crisis Select Bibliography Index