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Critical Theory and the Challenge of Totalitarianism

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Throughout the twentieth century the concepts of the totalitarian state and totalitarianism have functioned on a number of levels—political, moral, religious, and theoretical. The terms have been used in a variety of contexts in the political discourse, but also as more or less well-defined concepts for theoretical analysis. Although theorists have sometimes tried to keep these spheres entirely separate, such attempts have rarely been successful, since the walls between them have been porous. Clearly, the political and moral stakes have been too high to develop a purely theoretical and detached approach. The urge for a more elaborate theory, grounded...