INTELLECTUALS AND CRISIS OF POLIT - A Transnational History

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of modern European crisis discourses from the interwar period through to the present day.

List of contents

• 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

About the author

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.

Summary

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of modern European crisis discourses from the interwar period through to the present day.

Product details

• Authors: Balázs Trencsényi, Balazs (Professor Trencsenyi, Balázs Trencsényi
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.03.2025
• EAN: 9780198929482
• ISBN: 978-0-19-892948-2
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, Political Ideologies, HISTORY / Europe / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, Comparative Politics, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Political ideologies and movements