Modernism and fascism : the sense of a beginning under Mussolini and Hitler
Roger Griffin
Bok Engelsk 2007
| Utgitt | Houndmills : Palgrave Macmillan , 2007
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| Omfang | XV, 470 s. : ill.
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| Opplysninger | Preface: On the Prow of the Titanic (Bound for Bethlehem) -- PART ONE: ANTHROPOLOGICAL MODERNISM -- Resolving the Aporias of Fascist Modernism -- Two Modes of Modernism -- Towards an Archaeology of Modernism -- The Archetypal Substratum of Modernism --Renewing Society in the "Age of Clay": 1880-1918 -- Political Modernism and the Nature of Fascism -- PART TWO: THE PRAXIS OF FASCIST MODERNISM --Modernism and the Birth of Italian Fascism -- The Fate of Modernism under Italian Fascism -- Nazism as a Revitalization Movement -- The Alternative Modernism of Nazi Culture -- The Biopolitical Modernism of the Thir Reich --Three Endings and a Conclusion. - Analyzes Western modernity and the regimes of Mussolini and Hitler, and the links between the apparently contradictory phenomena. This book describes how modernism's roots lay in part in the fundamental human need to perceive a transcendent meaning and purpose to life and to restore this purpose in times of experienced decay and social breakdown.
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| ISBN | 9781403987839. - 9781403987846
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