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The Politics of Moderation in Modern European History Ido de Haan

The Politics of Moderation in Modern European History By Ido de Haan

The Politics of Moderation in Modern European History by Ido de Haan


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It explores the attempts to find a middle way between ideological extremes, from the nineteenth-century Juste Milieu and balance of power, via the Third Ways between capitalism and socialism, to the current calls for moderation beyond populism and religious radicalism.

The Politics of Moderation in Modern European History Summary

The Politics of Moderation in Modern European History by Ido de Haan

This book charts the varieties of political moderation in modern European history from the French Revolution to the present day. It explores the attempts to find a middle way between ideological extremes, from the nineteenth-century Juste Milieu and balance of power, via the Third Ways between capitalism and socialism, to the current calls for moderation beyond populism and religious radicalism. The essays in this volume are inspired by the widely-recognized need for a more nuanced political discourse. The contributors demonstrate how the history of modern politics offers a range of experiences and examples of the search for a middle way that can help us to navigate the tensions of the current political climate. At the same time, the volume offers a diagnosis of the problems and pitfalls of Third Ways, of finding the middle between extremes, and of the weaknesses of the moderate point of view.

About Ido de Haan

Ido de Haan is Professor of Political History at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He has published on nineteenth-century European political history, on the history and memory of the Holocaust, on Jewish history, and on the history of citizenship, democracy, and the welfare state. He currently studies the history of neoliberalism in the Netherlands.

Matthijs Lok is Assistant Professor of Modern European History at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His publications focus on the politics of memory and forgetting in the Restoration era, on the Counter-Enlightenment, European conservatism and nationalism, on the history of state formation and civil administration, and on the historiography of Europe.


Table of Contents

Introduction: The Politics of Moderation - Ido de Haan and Matthijs Lok
Part I: Post-Revolutionary Moderation1 Against Popular Societies and Faction. Transatlantic Discourses of Moderation in the American, French, and Dutch Republics of the 1790s - Rene Koekkoek2 Moderation and Religion in Post-Revolutionary French Liberalism: Germaine de Stael and Benjamin Constant - Arthur Ghins3 'The Extremes Set the Tone': Counter-Revolutionary Moderation in Continental Conservatism (ca. 1795-1840) - Matthijs Lok4 Taming the Evil Passions. Moderation in the International Relations - Beatrice de Graaf5 In Medio Stat Virtus? The Adaptability of the Moderate Project of Politics in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Europe (1830-1870) - Amerigo Caruso
Part II: Third ways, moderation, and radicalism in the twentieth century6 Third Ways Out of the Crisis of Liberalism. Moderation and Radicalism in Germany, 1880-1950 - Ido de Haan7 French Fascism as a Revolution of the Centre. Intellectuals between Revolution and Conservation - Daniel Knegt8 Moderation through Expertise: Functional Elites and the Politics of Moderation in Western Europe's Mid-Twentieth Century - Camilo Erlichman9 'Disconnect Romanticism from Politics': Democracy's Moderate Face in Cold War Western Europe - Pepijn Corduwener10 The Short History and Long Legacy of the Third Way. Social Democracy at the End of the Twentieth Century - Hanco Jurgens
Part III: Moderation beyond the European Tradition11 Moderation as Orthodoxy in Sunni Islam. Or, Why Nobody Wants to be the Kharijite - Robbert Woltering12 Moderation: a Radical Virtue - Aurelian Craiutu Sheldon Gellar

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NPB9783030274146
9783030274146
3030274144
The Politics of Moderation in Modern European History by Ido de Haan
New
Hardback
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
2019-09-19
272
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