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The spectre of collectivism
neoliberalism, the wars, and historical revisionism
pp. 183-197
Abstract
With considerable justification, Eric Hobsbawm (1994, 22) described the period between 1914 and 1945 as "that of the thirty-one years' world war'. World War I created the context for World War II by embedding a similar axis of conflict within the architecture of peace: "the Versailles settlement could not possibly be the basis of a stable peace. It was doomed from the start, and another war was therefore practically certain' (Hobsbawm 1994: 34). The combination of world wars one and two and the global economic depression which punctuated them was catastrophic:
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Published in:
Sharpe Matthew, Jeffs Rory, Reynolds Jack (2017) 100 years of European philosophy since the Great War: crisis and reconfigurations. Dordrecht, Springer.
Pages: 183-197
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-50361-5_10
Full citation:
Cahill Damien (2017) „The spectre of collectivism: neoliberalism, the wars, and historical revisionism“, In: M. Sharpe, R. Jeffs & J. Reynolds (eds.), 100 years of European philosophy since the Great War, Dordrecht, Springer, 183–197.