A Fascist Century: Essays by Roger Griffin

by R. Griffin, Matthew Feldman (Editor)

Overview

Ten essays on the nature of fascism by a leading scholar in the field, focusing on how to understand and apply fascist ideology to various movements since the twentieth century, Mussolini's prophesied 'fascist century'. Includes studies of fascism's attempted temporal revolution; Nazism as extended case-study; and fascism's postwar evolution.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230205185
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	08/20/2008
Edition description:	2008
Pages:	270
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

ROGER GRIFFIN is Professor of Modern History at the Oxford Brookes University and edits the Routledge quarterly, Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions. He has numerous articles and chapters on generic fascism, as well as editing three major anthologies of documentary texts: Fascism (OUP, 1995), International Fascism (Arnold, 1998) and the five volume (with Matthew Feldman) Fascism: Critical Concepts (Routledge, 2004). His two monographs are The Nature of Fascism (Pinter, 1991) and Modernism and Fascism (Palgrave, 2007).

MATTHEW FELDMAN is Lecturer in Twentieth Century History at the University of Northampton and edits the Routledge quarterly, Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions. He has written widely on European modernism as well as interwar politics and religion, and recently published Beckett's Books: A Cultural History of Samuel Beckett's 'Interwar Notes' (Continuum Press, 2006).

Table of Contents

Preface; S.G. Payne Editorial Introduction; M. Feldman PART I: FASCISM'S TEMPORAL REVOLUTION 'I am no longer human. I am a Titan. A god!': The Fascist Quest to Regenerate Time Modernity under the New Order: The Fascist Project for Managing the Future Exploding the Continuum of History: A Non-Marxist's 'Marxist' Model of Fascism's Revolutionary Dynamics. PART II: NAZISM AS A MANIFESTATION OF GENERIC FASCISM Fatal Attraction: Why Nazism Appealed to Voters Hooked Crosses and Forking Paths: The Fascist Dynamics of the Third Reich PART III: FASCISM'S EVOLUTION SINCE 1945 'No racism thanks, we're British': How Right-wing Populism Manifests itself in Contemporary Britain 'Europe for the Europeans': Fascist Myths of the European New Order 1922-1992 Fascism's New Facelessness in the Post-fascist Era Conclusion - The Fascination of Fascism: A Concluding Interview with Roger Griffin Bibliography Index

Editorial Reviews

'A landmark in the development of fascist studies. With this collection, Roger Griffin, with the assistance of Matthew Feldman, concludes for now a series of ground-breaking books on the phenomenon of international fascism. Over the last fifteen years, Griffin has single-handedly transformed academic research into fascism in a number of ways, through re-conceptualizing and re-interpreting its political nature, place in current history, relation to modernity, and relevance for our understanding of social transformations in the contemporary world.' Andreas Umland, European History Quarterly

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