Chapter 1 Introduction: Mass Dictatorship and the Radical Project for Modernity

Chapter 2 Mass Dictatorship: A Transnational Formation of Modernity

Chapter 3 Mass Dictatorship and the ‘Modernist State’

Chapter 4 Nebulous Nexus: Modernity and Perlustration in Maoist China

Chapter 5 Staging the Police: Visual Presentation and Everyday Coloniality

Chapter 6 Habermas, Fascism, and the Public Sphere

Chapter 7 Total War Mobilisation and the Transformation of the National Public Sphere in Japan, 1931–45

Chapter 8 Between Liberalism and National Socialism: The Historical Role of Volunteer Firemen Associations in Austria as a Public Sphere

Chapter 9 Colonial Publicness as Metaphor

Chapter 10 The Colonial Public Sphere and the Discursive Mechanism of Mindo

Chapter 11 Models of Selfhood and Subjectivity: The Soviet Case in Historical Perspective

Chapter 12 The End of the Weimar Republic: Individual Agency, Germany’s ‘Old Elites’, and the ‘Crisis of Classical Modernity’