Crossfire over the classics: Revisiting fifty years of polemics on the category of totalitarianism (1960-2010)

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Main Author: Varajidás, Henrique
Publication Date: 2021
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Language: por
Source: Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP)
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Summary: By aiming beyond the mere historical contextualization of the accumulated trove of reflections on totalitarianism, this article intends to reorder and reinterpret them using a heuristic grid of an eminently theoretical nature. We aim to explain how and with what justification the authors who most intensely focused on the subject in the 1940s and 1950s went, between the 1960s and the beginning of the present century, from nuclear to neglected within the area of totalitarianism studies. As the key to explaining this trajectory, we pinpoint the nature of the category’s neo-apologists’ reaction to three major criticisms formulated against it in the 1960s and 1970s.
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spelling Crossfire over the classics: Revisiting fifty years of polemics on the category of totalitarianism (1960-2010)Fogo cruzado sobre os clássicos: Revisitando cinquenta anos de polémica em torno da categoria totalitarismo (1960-2010)TotalitarismoRegime políticoComunismoFascismoNazismoTotalitarismPolitical regimeCommunismFascismNazismBy aiming beyond the mere historical contextualization of the accumulated trove of reflections on totalitarianism, this article intends to reorder and reinterpret them using a heuristic grid of an eminently theoretical nature. We aim to explain how and with what justification the authors who most intensely focused on the subject in the 1940s and 1950s went, between the 1960s and the beginning of the present century, from nuclear to neglected within the area of totalitarianism studies. As the key to explaining this trajectory, we pinpoint the nature of the category’s neo-apologists’ reaction to three major criticisms formulated against it in the 1960s and 1970s.Procurando ir além da mera contextualização histórica das reflexões acumuladas em torno da categoria do totalitarismo, este artigo pretende reordená-las e reinterpretá-las utilizando uma grelha heurística de natureza eminentemente teorética. O objectivo é explicar como e com que justificação o trabalho dos autores que mais intensamente se debruçaram sobre o assunto nas décadas de 1940 e 1950 passou de nuclear a desconsiderado, entre a década de 1960 e o início do presente século, no seio da área de estudos do totalitarismo. Descobrimos a chave para explicar essa trajectória na natureza da reacção dos neo-apologistas da perspectiva do totalitarismo a três grandes críticas formuladas à categoria nos anos 1960 e 1970.Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa2021-12-01info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://doi.org/10.48487/pdh.2021.n13.26478https://doi.org/10.48487/pdh.2021.n13.26478Práticas da História. Journal on Theory, Historiography and Uses of the Past; No. 13 (2021); 187-213Práticas da História. Journal on Theory, Historiography and Uses of the Past; N.º 13 (2021); 187-2132183-590Xreponame:Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP)instname:FCCN, serviços digitais da FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologiainstacron:RCAAPporhttps://praticasdahistoria.pt/article/view/26478https://praticasdahistoria.pt/article/view/26478/19406Copyright (c) 2022 Práticas da História. Journal on Theory, Historiography and Uses of the Pastinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessVarajidás, Henrique2024-09-07T05:25:05Zoai:ojs.revistas.rcaap.pt:article/26478Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireinfo@rcaap.ptopendoar:https://opendoar.ac.uk/repository/71602025-05-28T13:26:33.039354Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP) - FCCN, serviços digitais da FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologiafalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Crossfire over the classics: Revisiting fifty years of polemics on the category of totalitarianism (1960-2010)
Fogo cruzado sobre os clássicos: Revisitando cinquenta anos de polémica em torno da categoria totalitarismo (1960-2010)
title Crossfire over the classics: Revisiting fifty years of polemics on the category of totalitarianism (1960-2010)
spellingShingle Crossfire over the classics: Revisiting fifty years of polemics on the category of totalitarianism (1960-2010)
Varajidás, Henrique
Totalitarismo
Regime político
Comunismo
Fascismo
Nazismo
Totalitarism
Political regime
Communism
Fascism
Nazism
title_short Crossfire over the classics: Revisiting fifty years of polemics on the category of totalitarianism (1960-2010)
title_full Crossfire over the classics: Revisiting fifty years of polemics on the category of totalitarianism (1960-2010)
title_fullStr Crossfire over the classics: Revisiting fifty years of polemics on the category of totalitarianism (1960-2010)
title_full_unstemmed Crossfire over the classics: Revisiting fifty years of polemics on the category of totalitarianism (1960-2010)
title_sort Crossfire over the classics: Revisiting fifty years of polemics on the category of totalitarianism (1960-2010)
author Varajidás, Henrique
author_facet Varajidás, Henrique
author_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Varajidás, Henrique
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Totalitarismo
Regime político
Comunismo
Fascismo
Nazismo
Totalitarism
Political regime
Communism
Fascism
Nazism
topic Totalitarismo
Regime político
Comunismo
Fascismo
Nazismo
Totalitarism
Political regime
Communism
Fascism
Nazism
description By aiming beyond the mere historical contextualization of the accumulated trove of reflections on totalitarianism, this article intends to reorder and reinterpret them using a heuristic grid of an eminently theoretical nature. We aim to explain how and with what justification the authors who most intensely focused on the subject in the 1940s and 1950s went, between the 1960s and the beginning of the present century, from nuclear to neglected within the area of totalitarianism studies. As the key to explaining this trajectory, we pinpoint the nature of the category’s neo-apologists’ reaction to three major criticisms formulated against it in the 1960s and 1970s.
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