Modernism and Fascism

The Sense of a Beginning Under Mussolini and Hitler
2007. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-4039-8783-9
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 470 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 885 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Griffin, R.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

ROGER GRIFFIN is Professor in Modern History at Oxford Brookes University, UK. His major work is (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 , a documentary reader of primary sources relating to fascism published by OUP (1995), , a documentary reader of secondary sources published by Arnold in 1998, and the five volumes of secondary sources relating to fascism in Routledge's series (1993).