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English summary: In the first volume the Polish historian Jacob L. Talmon who taught many years at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem discusses the origins of totalitarian democracy in the 18th 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 zahlt zu den bedeutendsten ideenhistorischen Deutungen des Totalitarismus. Sie war fur die Rekonstruktion der intellektuellen Geschichte der totalitaren Ideologien des 20. Jahrhunderts von bahnbrechender Bedeutung. Im ersten Band behandelt Talmon die Ursprunge der totalitaren Demokratie im 18. Jahrhundert.

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Prof. Dr. Uwe Backes ist stellvertretender Direktor am Hannah-Arendt-Institut und apl. Prof. am Institut fA r Politikwissenschaft der TU Dresden.

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