The present study aimed to answer the question that Qajar government as a political system was an authoritarian government? This study deals with the outcomes of Qajar Authoritarianism and the impact of effective historical-geographical conditions of Iran on emergence or continuance of Authoritarianism. Authoritarianism in this study is not a one-dimensional structure and it is composed of some...

Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World in 1932 as a cautionary tale of the implications of totalitarianism, technology, capitalism, and mass media. The hallmarks of the futuristic society in Brave New World can be seen in Mestrovic’s critical theory of postemotionalism. Mestrovic argues that our society has slipped into a state in which emotions have been manipulated to such an extent that we now ...

In The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt criticises the “abstract nakedness” of human rights and the dangers of statelessness. She invokes the “right to have rights” as the only universal right, identifying the fundamental aporia of human rights: despite the claim to universality, rights are only ever granted to those belonging to particular political communities. Through the case of th...

The purpose of the article is to highlight features contemporary national culture as a special artistic meaning Gesamtkunstwerk, which formed by reflection predominantly historical pattern. research methodology consists set scientific methods general and nature. Methods analysis synthesis, well historical, cultural systemic approaches, were used reveal essence virtual reality super narratives i...

This article identifies two different paths where the amnesia described by Hannah- Arendt and fragmentation identified Willie James Jennings of our historical past has distorted how people today view dan-cing. I set out Christian entanglement with colonial powers impacted on people’s abilities to relate their bodies, lands other creatures world. describe wound Western society forms basis loneli...

What is the impact of dictatorships on postdictatorial civil societies? Bottom-up theories suggest that totalitarian dictatorships destroy civil society while authoritarian ones allow for its development. Top-down theories of civil society suggest that totalitarianism can create civil societies while authoritarianism is unlikely to. This article argues that both these perspectives suffer from a...

Politically, Nordic Nazism and Fascism never amounted to much. The Nazi parties in Scandinavia never played any important role in political life. Only elements without significant influence wanted parliamentary democracy to be replaced by totalitarianism. In Sweden there was many small Nazi-parties, but even the biggest one, Nationalsocialistiska arbetarpartiet (NSAP/SSS), led by Sven Olof Lind...