Conceptul de totalitarism - construct tipologic sau model?
The concept of totalitarianism – a typological construct or model?

Summary/Abstract: The concept of totalitarism is one of the most disputed concepts of the political language. The critics of the totalitarism, on the one hand, were directed namely against the “model of totalitarianism”. The frequent use of totalitarianism as a “model” led us to ask ourselves what does a “model” mean and if we can use totalitarianism as a model? On the other hand, the scholars who implemented the concept of totalitarianism, especially Giovanni Sartori, have argued that the term is a „typological construct” and the understanding of the totalitarianism as a „model” dismiss some important aspects of the term itself. In that situation, the article deals with the necessity of emphasizing some conceptual delimitation in the complex theory of totalitarism.

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