Die Geschichte Der Totalitaren Demokratie Band II

English summary: The second volume is put under the leitmotif political messianism covering a wide range of political ideas of the 19th century. The outstanding trilogy by the Polish historian Jacob L. Talmon (1916-1980) who taught many years until his death the history of totalitarian democracy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem became the most influential interpretation of the history of ideas. His findings were groundbreaking for the reconstruction of intellectual history in totalitarian ideology in the 20th century. In the first volume Talmon discusses the origins of totalitarian democracy in the 18th century. German description: Die Trilogie des aus Polen stammenden, bis zu seinem Tod viele Jahre lang an der Hebraischen Universitat Jerusalem lehrenden Historikers Jacob L. Talmon (1916-1980) zur Geschichte der totalitaren Demokratie war fur die Rekonstruktion der intellektuellen Geschichte der totalitaren Ideologien des 20. Jahrhunderts bahnbrechend.