Totality, Charisma, Authority : The Origins and Transformations of Totalist Movements

This interdisciplinary endeavour portrays the central features of militant movements which hold totality as an important part of their doctrinal core. Revisiting the importance of modernity, utopianism, eschatology, charisma, psychology and the history of ideas, Mihai Murariu pursues a reconstructio...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Murariu, Mihai (Author)
Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint: Springer VS, 2017.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783658163228
DOI10.1007/978-3-658-16322-8
Physical DescriptionX, 328 p. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • Totality and Totalism: Theory and Concepts
  • Evolving Perspectives: Eschatology and Utopia
  • The Totalist Types: Between Renovative and Utopian Strands
  • Totalism Transformed: Power, Purity, and Truth from Heterodoxy to Ideocracy.-The Legion of the Archangel Michael and the "Hybrid" Totalist Type.