Military, Democracy, Specialty Boutique, Political Science 

The author was Professor of Modern History at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and a long-standing member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities until his death in 1980. Totalitarian democracy and after, first published in 1948, contains the principal papers from a distinguished colloquium held in his honor in 1982. The book’s avowed aim was to investigate further the notion of ‘Totalitarian Democracy’ that Talmon brought to the fore in his influential first book The Origin of Totalitarian Democracy (1951), and to look at its repercussions in the contemporary world. 

This volume, first published in 1984, contains the principal papers from a distinguished colloquium held in 1982. Its avowed purpose is to investigate further the notion of "totalitarian democracy" and to look at its repercussions in the contemporary world. - from Amzon 

Table of Contents

Jacob Talmon--An Intellectual Portrait Yehoshua Arieli…………............p. 1

Part I The Historiography and Philosophy of History in Relation to
Historical Reality in Terms of Totalitarian Democracy
Totalitarian Democracy and the Legacy of Modern
Revolutions--Explanation or Indictment? John Dunn…………………................p. 37

Rival Revolutionary Ideals James H. Billington………………...............p. 56

Turn of the Century and Totalitarian Ideology
Karl Dietrich Bracher …………………………………………...................................p. 70

Part II Totalitarian Democracy--Cultural Traditions and Modernization
Totalitarian Democracy--Cultural Traditions and Modernization.
Introductory Remarks S. N. Eisenstadt……………………………..........................p. 83

Christian Antecedents to Totalitarian Democratic
Ideologies in the Early Modern Period Michael Heyd…………........................p. 86

Different Visions of Political Messianism in the
Marxist European Tradition Shlomo Avineri…………………….............................p. 96

Russian and Western European Roots of Soviet Totalitarianism
Michael Confino………………………………………………….....................................p. 104

The Historical Setting of German Totalitarianism Moshe Zimmermann……………………………………………………..........................................p. 118

Political Traditions and Responses in Islam Hava Lazarus-Yafeh……………………………………………………………..............................................p. 128

Totalitarian Democratic Hermeneutics and Policies in Modern Jewish
Religious Nationalism Uriel Tal………………………………...............................p. 137

Traditional Constraints on Totalitarianism in Japan
Ben-Ami Shillony…………………………………………….........................................…p. 158

Part III The Varieties and Transformations of Totalitarian Democracy in Different Countries and Under Different Regimes
Political Style and Political Theory--Totalitarian Democracy Revisited

George L. Mosse………………………………………………….....................................p. 167

Political Style and Political Theory--Totalitarian Democracy Revisited.
Comments on George L. Mosse's Paper Yaron Ezrahi………..................…p. 177

Totalitarianism and Tyranny Michael Walzer…………………................p. 183

Totalitarianism and Totality. A Response to Michael
Walzer Yirmiahu Yovel……………………………………….................................….p. 193

Aux sources de l'ideologie fasciste: La revolte socialiste contre le
materialisme Zeev Sternhell………………………………….............................…p. 197

Ideas, Political Intentions and Historical Consequences-
The Case of the Russian Revolution Baruch Knei-Paz………...................…p. 232

Totalitarianism and After in Communist
Party Regimes Richard Lowenthal……………………………...........................…p. 262

Totalitarianism and After in Communist Party Regimes. Comments
on Richard Lowenthal's Paper Harold Z. Schiffrin…………….....................p. 323

Part IV The Impact of Totalitarian Democracy on the Jewish Situation
Democracy and Its Negations--On Polarity in Jewish
Socialism Jonathan Frankel……………………………………...............................p. 329

Zionism and Political Messianism Israel Kolatt………………............…p. 342

Zionism and Political Messianism. Comments on
Israel Kolatt's Paper Anita Shapira……………………………........................…p. 354

The Israeli Kibbutz--The Dynamics of Pragmatic
Utopianism Erik Cohen…………………………………………...............................p. 362

The Israeli Kibbutz--The Dynamics of Pragmatic Utopianism.
Comments on Erik Cohen's Paper Menachem Rosner……………………………………………………………...........................................p. 377

The Context of Hannah Arendt's Concept of Totalitarianism Ben Halpern…………………………………………………………........................................…..p. 386
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Between Rulers and Ruled--Some Aspects of the Jewish Tradition
Ephraim E. Urbach…........................................................................p. 39