Table of Contents

Prologue: The Promethean Passion of Modernity 1. From Rousseau to Tocqueville: Janus face of Modernity 2.1848: "We are sitting on a Volcano" 3. From Marx to Lenin: A Red Future 4. Anarchism, Nihilism, Racism 5. Foucault and beyond Epilogue: The End of Modernity?

About the Author

David Ohana is Professor of Modern European History at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. He has been affiliated with the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, the Paris-Sorbonne, Harvard University, and the University of California at Berkeley. He specializes in comparative national mythologies.