M. Kim & M. Schoenhals 
Mass Dictatorship and Modernity 

Mass Dictatorship and Modernity is the second volume in the ‘Mass Dictatorship’ series. A transnational, academic research venture, it interrogates mass dictatorship in a broad historical context, focusing on the emergence of modernity through interactions of center and periphery, empire and colony, and democracy and dictatorship on a global scale.

Table of Content

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors 1. Introduction: Mass Dictatorship and the Radical Project for Modernity; M.Kim & M.Schoenhals PART I: RADICAL PROJECTS FOR MODERNIZATION 2. Mass Dictatorship as a Transnational Formation of Modernity; J.Lim 3. Mass Dictatorship and the ‘Modernist State’; R.Griffin 4. Nebulous Nexus: Modernity and Perlustration in Maoist China; M.Schoenhals 5. Staging the Police: Visual Presentation and Everyday Coloniality; H.C.Ts’ai PART II: THE PUBLIC SPHERE AND MASS DICTATORSHIP 6. Habermas, Fascism and the Public Sphere; P.Corner 7. Total War Mobilization and Transformation of the National Public Sphere in Japan, 1931-1945; K.H.Kim 8. Between Liberalism and National Socialism: The Historical Role of Voluntary Firemen Associations in Austria as a Public Sphere; H.Mizuno 9. Colonial Publicness as Metaphor; H.Yun 10. The Colonial Public Sphere and the Discursive Mechanism of Mindo; M.Kim PART III: MODERN SUBJECTIFICATION AND AGENCY 11. Models of Selfhood and Subjectivity: The Soviet Case in Historical Perspective; C.Chatterjee & K.Petrone 12. The End of the Weimar Republic: Individual Agency, Germany’s ‘Old Elites’ and the ‘Crisis of Classical Modernity’; P.Lambert 13. Total, Thus Broken: Chuch’e Sasang and North Korea’s Terrain of Subjectivity; C.Kim Index

About the author

Choi Chatterjee, California State University, Los Angeles, USA Paul Corner, The University Of Siena, Italy Roger Griffin, Oxford Brookes University, UK Cheehyung Kim, Duke University, USA Kyu Hyun Kim, The University Of California, Davis, USA Peter Lambert, Aberystwyth University, UK Jie Hyun Lim, Hanyang University In Seoul, Korea Karen Petrone, The University Of Kentucky, USA Hiroko Mizuno, Osaka University, Japan Hui-Yu Caroline Ts’ai, The Institute Of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Hae-Dong Yun, Hanyang University, Korea