Paperback edition / with a new preface by the author.
Description
xxiv, 356 pages ; 24 cm
Note
Previous ed.: 2008.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Myth in the making -- Totalitarianism's inversion: beginnings of the imaginary of a permanent global war -- Totalitarianism's inversion, democracy's perversion -- The new world of terror -- The utopian theory of superpower: the official version -- The dynamics of transformation -- The dynamics of the archaic -- The politics of superpower: managed democracy -- Intellectual elites against democracy -- Domestic politics in the era of superpower and empire -- Inverted totalitarianism: antecedents and precedents -- Demotic moments -- Democracy's prospects: looking backwards -- Notes.
