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The political forms of modern society : bureaucracy, democracy, totalitarianism / Claude Lefort ; edited and introduced by John B. Thompson.

Title
The political forms of modern society : bureaucracy, democracy, totalitarianism / Claude Lefort ; edited and introduced by John B. Thompson.
Author
Lefort, Claude
Publication
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1986.

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Additional Authors
Thompson, John B. (John Brookshire)
Description
342 p.; 23 cm.
Uniform Title
Works. Selections. English. 1986
Alternative Title
Works. 1986
Subject
  • Geschichte 1945-1980
  • Communist state
  • Bureaucracy
  • Democracy
  • Totalitarianism
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. [331]-333.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The contradiction of Trotsky -- Totalitarianism without Stalin -- What is bureaucracy? -- Novelty and the appeal of repetition -- Marx: from one vision of history to another -- Outline of the genesis of ideology in modern societies -- Politics and human rights -- The logic of totalitarianism -- The image of the body and totalitarianism -- Pushing back the limits of the possible
ISBN
0262121174
LCCN
^^^86003050^
OCLC
  • 13328366
  • SCSB-12257011
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library