The Anti-Enlightenment Tradition

In this masterful work of historical scholarship, Zeev Sternhell, an internationally renowned Israeli political scientist and historian, presents a controversial new view of the fall of democracy and the rise of radical nationalism in the twentieth century. Sternhell locates their origins in the eighteenth century with the advent of the Anti-Enlightenment, far earlier than most historians.

The thinkers belonging to the Anti-Enlightenment (a movement originally identified by Friederich Nietz...