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Tracing the history of the concept of political extremism from Ancient Greece to the present day, this is an invaluable resource for scholars of democracy, extremism and political sociology.;1. Introduction -- 2. Extremes, mean, moderation and constitutional mixture in Antiquity and the Middle Ages -- 3. Extremes and the tradition of the mixed constitution from early humanism to the age of democratic revolutions -- 4. Extreme ideologies in the political laboratory of the nineteenth century -- 5. Extremism at the beginning of the 'age of extremes' -- 6. Extreme terms in the political language of German ideocracies -- 7. Extremism as an element of the official/semi-official language of the Federal Republic of Germany -- 8. Lines of development of the extremism concept in the twentieth century -- 9. Political extremism : final results, classification of terms and outlook.

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Author
Backes, Uwe
Publisher
Routledge
Published
2009
Language
EN
ISBN
9781135259440
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Political Science, Science, Social Science

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