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(2017) 100 years of European philosophy since the Great War, Dordrecht, Springer.
The spectre of collectivism
neoliberalism, the wars, and historical revisionism
Damien Cahill
pp. 183-197
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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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-50361-5_10
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Cahill, D. (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, pp. 183-197.
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