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Examining conceptualizations of fanaticism from different geographical, political, temporal, and contextual backgrounds, Zachary R. Goldsmith’s political-philosophical history of the concept offers an argument and warning against fanaticism, demonstrating that it is antidemocratic, illiberal, antipolitical, and never necessary. As the post-WWII liberal democratic consensus comes under increasing assault around the globe, Zachary R. Goldsmith investigates a timely topic: the reemergence of fanaticism. His book demonstrates how the concept of fanaticism, so often flippantly invoked with little forethought, actually has a long history stretching back to ancient times. Tracing this history through the Reformation and the Enlightenment to our present moment of political extremism run amok, Goldsmith offers a novel account of fanaticism, detailing its transformation from a primarily religious to a political concept around the time of the French Revolution. He draws on the work of Immanuel Kant, Edmund Burke, and Fyodor Dostoevsky—all keen observers of fanaticism, and especially its political variant—in order to explore this crucial moment in the development of political fanaticism. Exami

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Author

Zachary Robert Goldsmith

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812298628

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Humanities