{"product_id":"intellectuals-and-the-crisis-of-politics-in-the-interwar-period-and-beyond-a-transnational-history-9780198929482","title":"Intellectuals and the Crisis of Politics in the Interwar Period and Beyond: A Transnational History","description":"This volume offers a broad-ranging and comprehensive analysis of the history and theory of the political idea of 'crisis', from the interwar period through to the present day. It considers how the multiple crises of civilization, capitalism, social cohesion, liberalism, democracy, socialism, and the nation-state were conceptualized; how these spheres of crisis became entangled; and who the intellectuals, politicians and experts were who employed these discourses. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eIntellectuals and the Crisis of Politics in the Interwar Period and Beyond\u003c\/em\u003e maps the range of meanings the term 'crisis' has borne and the roles it has performed across disciplines and countries, de-centering the dominant narrative that takes Western European positions and developments as normative. It especially focuses on the historical roots of two key contemporary contesters of liberal democracy: neoliberalism and populism, and presents an innovative analysis of the roots of contemporary illiberalism in Europe. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBringing these ideas into the present day, Bal�zs Trencs�nyi offers ideas on how a reflective and self-critical liberal democratic political position could be defined and defended in our current predicament, which is increasingly compared to the interwar period and is often described as a \"polycrisis\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBal?zs Trencs?nyi, \u003cem\u003eProfessor, Department of History, Central European University\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBal?zs Trencs?nyi\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor in the History Department at Central European University (CEU) and Director of the CEU Institute for Advanced Study in Budapest. His main field of interest is the history of modern political thought in East Central Europe. He is the co-author of \u003cem\u003eA History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe\u003c\/em\u003e, vols. I-II (OUP, 2016-8) and co-editor of \u003cem\u003eEuropean Regions and Boundaries: A Conceptual History\u003c\/em\u003e (Berghahn Books, 2017) and \u003cem\u003eBrave New Hungary: Mapping the \"System of National Cooperation\"\u003c\/em\u003e (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019), among others.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51318820438290,"sku":"9780198929482","price":135.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_28d7e8a7-baf1-4ccf-96e1-bf6a47dcc6b5.jpg?v=1748516452","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/intellectuals-and-the-crisis-of-politics-in-the-interwar-period-and-beyond-a-transnational-history-9780198929482","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}