Lost Debate

• Utgivningsdatum: 2026-11-05
• Mått: 155 x 235 x 29 mm
• Vikt: 752 g
• Format: Inbunden
• Språk: Engelska
• Serie: Historical Materialism Book Series
• Antal sidor: 354
• Förlag: Brill
• ISBN: 9789004778672

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• Sociologi
• Marxism och kommunism
• Filosofiska discipliner

William David Jones, Ph.D. (1992), Claremont Graduate School, is Professor Emeritus of History at Mt. San Antonio College. He has published articles and reviews on the intellectual and political history of the Left in Europe and the United States.

From reviews of the first edition, published in 1999*:“To read Jones is to rediscover the vitality and creativity of these German students of totalitarianism. The author may have sought to place these thinkers in the context of recent history, but he has done more – he has invited readers to better understand that history itself.” — Stephen Bailey in: Choice magazine.“Jones has succeeded in highlighting a phase of intellectual history almost entirely forgotten in a book which is readable as well as thorough and comprehensive. Historical analyses of totalitarian regimes should not be considered without it.” — Michael J. Thompson in: Science and Society.“As Jones demonstrates convincingly, many of the most profound insights into the nature of totalitarian rule and its roots in post-Enlightenment modernity came from German socialist intellectuals, who wrestled with two twentieth-century tyrannies. Jones, splendidly and empathetically conversant in this German left intellectual tradition and its recent echoes and critiques in France, Germany, and beyond, thus fills a critical gap in the historical meaning and role of totalitarianism.” — Diethelm Prowe in: History: Reviews of New Books.“This book makes a welcome contribution to the debate on totalitarianism as well as inter-war and wartime European intellectual history. . . . Jones performs a very valuable service by decisively disproving the cliché of totalitarianism as simply a Cold War concept, while also charting the theoretical development of some unjustly forgotten intellectuals who came to influence both Hannah Arendt and George Orwell.” — Jan-Werner Müller in: Political Studies.“As William David Jones ably demonstrates in The Lost Debate: German Socialist Intellectuals and Totalitarianism, comparative theories of dictatorship have by no means been the exclusive province of liberal and conservative scholars. Though their contributions have often been overlooked, German socialist intellectuals have been making such comparisons since the interwar years.” — Elisabeth Ellis in: History of Political Thought.“From a scholarly standpoint, [Jones’s] excavation of this important debate deserves attention, particularly for his pathbreaking study of several of the aforementioned lesser-known figures and his nuanced historical reconstruction of the concept of totalitarianism. From a political standpoint, Jones’s book deserves attention as well, not perhaps so much because the concept of totalitarianism is particularly relevant today, but rather because the triumph of liberal democracy and the disappearance of the ‘totalitarian threat’ should permit a more open and critical discussion of the forms of social domination that continue to accompany the globalization of ‘Western capitalism.’” — John Abromeit in: Theory and Society.*This new edition of The Lost Debate (2026), published by Brill in its Historical Materialism Series, includes numerous revised sections and contains over two hundred additional references in an expanded bibliography.

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