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The definition of fanatics as people who seek to destroy civil society-formulated by German Protestant Reformers in the 16th century-is traced and studied through the long cycles of Western political thought.

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List of illustrations; Preface; Introduction: the fanatic's truth; 1. Civil society and fanaticism: conjoined histories; 2. Civil society and the city of God; 3. Sword against flail; 4. The painter of the two cities; 5. The mouth of God; 6. The voice of the prophets; 7. The absolute bourgeois; 8. The citizen as Bourgeois; 9. Civil society and civil war; 10. Civil society and the law-governed state; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Civil Society and Fanaticism Conjoined Histories

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      Publisher: Stanford University Press
      Publication Date: 01/08/1997
      ISBN13: 9780804727365, 978-0804727365
      ISBN10: 0804727368
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The definition of fanatics as people who seek to destroy civil society-formulated by German Protestant Reformers in the 16th century-is traced and studied through the long cycles of Western political thought.

      Table of Contents
      List of illustrations; Preface; Introduction: the fanatic's truth; 1. Civil society and fanaticism: conjoined histories; 2. Civil society and the city of God; 3. Sword against flail; 4. The painter of the two cities; 5. The mouth of God; 6. The voice of the prophets; 7. The absolute bourgeois; 8. The citizen as Bourgeois; 9. Civil society and civil war; 10. Civil society and the law-governed state; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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