The Age of Ideologies: A History of Political Thought in the Twentieth Century

by Karl Dietrich Bracher, Ewald Osers (Translator)

The Age of Ideologies presents a lucid and penetrating insight into the fundamental twentieth-century conflict between totalitarianism and democracy. In an age of woldwide upheaval, many ideals -liberal, conservative, socialist, revolutionary - have been translated into political action and have often resulted in crisis and dictatorship. Far from this century being an age of the "end of ideologies", we have witnessed the need for and the susceptibility to political ideologies. In tracing the history of political thought in this century, Karl Dietrich Bracher, a noted German scholar, shows how the violent disruptions of war and crisis have worked to create this vulnerability to ideological thinking. Indeed, he shows how the heightened role of ideologies in recent years gives new relevance to questions posed at the turn of the century.

Genres: History

305 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1984

About the author

Karl Dietrich Bracher was a German political scientist and historian of the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany. Born in Stuttgart, he served in the Wehrmacht during World War II and was captured by the Americans while serving in Tunisia in 1943. He was then held as a POW in Camp Concordia, Kansas. He was awarded a Ph.D. in the Classics by the University of Tübingen in 1948 and subsequently studied at Harvard University from 1949 to 1950. During World War II, Bracher taught at the Free University of Berlin from 1950 to 1958 and at the University of Bonn, where he was a professor of politics and contemporary history from 1959 to 1987. Bracher married Dorothee Schleicher, the niece of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

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