ABSTRACT
Before the First World War, the field of possibilities resulting from all we considered in the previous chapter began to assume a certain shape and structure through the mediation of intellectuals, who translated those abstract possibilities into relatively concrete diagnoses and prescriptions. Those coming later thus tended to encounter the new space through the mapping that these intellectuals had thereby offered. Although such intellectual articulations were obviously not sufficient in themselves, they were essential to the content, or substance, of the subsequent totalitarian departures.
