• Context: concern with individualism as a modern phenomenon; attempt to present an ethical defense of individualism; how to reconcile individualism with ethical concern for other members of society? Durkheim rejects both the utilitarian defense of individualism found in classical liberalism and the collectivist rejection of individualism advanced by the church, the military, and the authoritar...

Review of Theodor W. Adorno, Else Frenkel-Brunswik, Daniel J. Levinson & R. Nevitt Sanford in collaboration with Betty Aron, Maria Hertz Levinson, and William Morrow (2019) The Authoritarian Personality. With an Introduction by Peter E. Gordon. London/New York: Verso.

Based on the theories (of personality traits’, situational, followers’, psychological) related to emergence of political leadership, basis comparative and qualitative methods, characteristics leadership have been studied in post-Soviet era. A leader uses situation, relies upon followers, and, most cases, great leaders awarded with charisma are characterized by a whole range psychological featur...