Book

The Modern State and Its Enemies: Democracy, Nationalism and Antisemitism

February 2020

DOI:10.2307/j.ctvsn3nq8

Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 9781785272202

Authors:

Samuel Salzborn

Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht Berlin

‘The Modern State and Its Enemies’ considers the historical intellectual developments that provided the fundaments of the modern state and analyses the dark sides of the enemies of democracy.

European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology ISSN: (Print) ( Mosaic of the contemporary populist radical right: A review essay

Article

Jun 2021

Petra Guasti

This review follows the structure of the book, exploring the key elements raised by the author, starting with the introduction and proceeding through each of the three sections. The introduction discusses the limits of the friend versus foe narrative in the absence of clarity by drawing upon the theoretical lit- erature on populism and its relationship to democracy (Canovan, 1999; Urbinati, 2014, 2019). This review will focus the discussion around the main themes of each section, namely; the tensions between freedom and sovereignty in the first section, nationalism and antisemitism over time in the second section, and the rejection of the emancipatory promise of modernity by reactionary elements of the radical right in the third section. This review will conclude by assessing the limits and potential of the book, drawing on Popper’s paradox of tolerance (Popper, 2020).

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