Intellectual debates surrounding modernity, modernism and fascism continue to be active and hotly contested. In this ambitious book, renowned expert on fascism Roger Griffin analyzes Western modernity and the regimes of Mussolini and Hitler and offers a pioneering new interpretation of the links between these apparently contradictory phenomena.
Autorentext
ROGER GRIFFIN is Professor in Modern History at Oxford Brookes University, UK. His major work is The Nature of Fascism (1991), which established the first new theory of generic fascism for over a decade. This is his first authored book since that 1991 breakthrough. He has also edited Fascism, a documentary reader of primary sources relating to fascism published by OUP (1995), International Fascism. Theories, Causes, and the New Consensus, a documentary reader of secondary sources published by Arnold in 1998, and the five volumes of secondary sources relating to fascism in Routledge's Critical Concepts in Political Science series (1993).
Inhalt
Introduction: Aufbruch! PART I:THE SENSE OF A BEGINNING IN MODERNISM The paradoxes of 'fascist modernism' Two modes of modernism An archaeology of modernism A primordialist theory of modernism Social modernism 1880-1918 The rise of political modernism 1848-1945 PART II: FASCISM'S MODERNIST STATE The birth of Fascism from modernism The Fascist regime as a Modernist State Nazism as a revitalization movement The modernism of Nazi culture The Third Reich's biopolitical modernism Casting off Postscript : A Different beginning Bibliography Index
Titel
Modernism and Fascism
Untertitel
The Sense of a Beginning under Mussolini and Hitler
Autor
EAN
9780230596122
ISBN
978-0-230-59612-2
Format
E-Book (pdf)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Veröffentlichung
22.05.2007
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Wasserzeichen
Dateigrösse
3.39 MB
Anzahl Seiten
470
Jahr
2007
Untertitel
Englisch
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