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Louis XIV s’est employé à cacher les ombres de son règne, car il avait le goût du secret et l’art de la dissimulation. En accord avec la culture européenne de son temps, il chercha à protéger les mystères de l’Etat, afin de donner à la monarchie, au nom de son pouvoir absolu, des moyens plus étendus et plus efficaces, même s’ils furent parfois douteux. Derrière la gloire flamboyante, ce livre nous révèle la face cachée du soleil, car l’éclat du règne est entretenu au moyen d’outils bien peu héroïques. «Justice» du roi qui ne s’embarrasse pas de procédure et prépare dans les coulisses ses coups de maître, usage immodéré de la lettre de cachet, manipulation de dossiers politiques (Fouquet), promulgation brutale de textes répressifs (révocation de l’édit de Nantes), courriers cryptés avec des agents étrangers, vastes réseaux de surveillance et d’espionnage, amours cachées (à côté des amours publiques), mariage secret (avec Mme de Maintenon), accord secret avec Charles II d’Angleterre, traités pour le partage du monde, enlèvement de suspects et même d’un patriarche arménien à Constantinople… La liste des affaires ténébreuses et des manipulations est longue. En voici, pour la première fois, la terrible chronique.

Despotism. --- Louis --- France --- Kings and rulers.

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The first political theory of post-Communism examines its implications for understanding liberty, rights, transitional justice, property rights, privatization, rule of law, centrally planned public institutions, and the legacies of totalitarian thought in language and discourse. The transition to post-totalitarianism was the spontaneous adjustment of the rights of the late-totalitarian elite to its interest. Post-totalitarian governments faced severe scarcity in the supply of justice. Rough justice punished the perpetrators and compensated their victims. Historical theories of property rights became radical, and consequentialist theories, conservative. Totalitarianism in Europe disintegrated but did not end. The legacies of totalitarianism in higher education met New Public Management, totalitarian central planning under a new label. Totalitarianism divorced language from reality through the use of dialectics that identified opposites and the use of logical fallacies to argue for ideological conclusions. This book illustrates these legacies in the writings of Habermas, Derrida, and Žižek about democracy, personal responsibility, dissidence, and totalitarianism.

Post-communism. --- Totalitarianism. --- Totalitarian state --- Authoritarianism --- Collectivism --- Despotism --- Dictatorship --- Fascism --- National socialism --- Postcommunism --- World politics --- Communism

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Despotism --- Monarchy --- Kings and rulers, Ancient. --- Abuse of administrative power --- Power (Social sciences) --- History --- History --- History --- History

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Une étude des relations entre la littérature pour la jeunesse et le contexte dictatorial de nombreux pays au XXe siècle, notamment en temps de guerre. ©Electre 2016

Literature in propaganda --- Littérature dans la propagande --- Littérature dans la propagande --- Children's literature --- Despotism --- Politics and literature --- Littérature de jeunesse --- Despotisme --- Politique et littérature --- Political aspects --- History --- Aspect politique --- Histoire --- Science fiction [Albanian ] --- Congresses --- History and criticism

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From the early days of Hitler's rise to power, Bronislaw Malinowski was an outspoken opponent of National Socialism. In response to this, Malinowski began to devote much attention to the analysis of war, from its development throughout history to its disastrous manifestations at the start of the Second World War.

Freedom and Civilization, first published in 1947, is the final expression of Malinowski's basic beliefs and conclusions regarding the war, totalitarianism and the future of humanity. This book will be of interest to students of politics and history.

Civilization. --- Liberty. --- Democracy. --- Totalitarianism. --- Totalitarian state --- Authoritarianism --- Collectivism --- Despotism --- Dictatorship --- Fascism --- National socialism --- Self-government --- Political science --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Civil liberty --- Emancipation --- Freedom --- Liberation --- Personal liberty --- Democracy --- Natural law --- Libertarianism --- Social control --- Barbarism --- Civilisation --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Culture --- World Decade for Cultural Development, 1988-1997