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6 reviewsISBN 10: 140398784X
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Author: Roger Griffin
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.
Part One
The Sense of a Beginning in Modernism
1 The Paradoxes of 'Fascist Modernism'
Revolting against the modern world Fascism and modernism: 'aporia' or paradox? Strategies for resolving the aporias of fascist modernism Nazism's convoluted 'anti-modernism' A 'synoptic interpretation' of fascist modernism?
The Babel effect in academia
The methodological crisis in the humanities
'Reflexive humanities' and the itinerary of this book
Julius Evola revisited
2 Two Modes of Modernism
Modernism's 'dialogic' (dire logic?)
The malaise of modernity
Modernity as 'decadence'
An ideal type of modernism
Nietzsche's modernist revolt
Epiphanic and programmatic modernism
The porous membranes of modernisms
Exploring the modernism of fascism
3 An Archaeology of Modernism
The rituals of modernity
A 'primordialist' theory of modernism
The need for a 'sacred canopy'
The erosion of our 'sheltering sky'
The search for transcendence
The terror of Cronus
TMT
Temporalization revisited
The birth of aesthetic modernism
Three case studies in cultural modernism
The primordial dynamic of modernist movements
4 A Primordialist Definition of Modernism
The myth of transition
The rite of passage
The revitalization movement
Programmatic modernism revisited
Modernity and the liminoid
A primordialist definition of modernism
Beyond the 'decay of values'
The search for transcendence in modern art
A modernist evaluates modernism
5 Social Modernism in Peace and War 1880-1918
Past masters
Occultist social modernism
Modernity's 'cultic milieu'
Rightist social modernism
Modernist body politics
Scientistic 'narratives of change'
Warning shadows
1914: the beginning of a beginning
6 The Rise of Political Modernism 1848-1945
Creation from the depths
Homo faber as Promethean modernist
Dionysian socialism
Marxism as modernism
The modernism of organic nationalism
Futural reaction
Fascism as political modernism
The fascist regimes as 'gardening states'
Political modernism and the Gorgon's gaze
Part Two
Fascism's Modernist State
7 The Birth of Fascism from Modernism
Death in Florence
The modernism of the 'pure act'
The palingenetic climate of post-Risorgimento Italy Italianist modernism
The maximalist concept of nationalist modernism
The search for a mazeway of one political modernist
The political modernism of the first 'Fascists'
The birth of Fascism as a revitalization movement
A confluence of modernisms
Fascism as the Rohrschach test of Italian modernism
8 The Fascist Regime as a Modernist State
Fascism's 'challenge to Time' Fascism's technocratic modernism
The 'voracious amoeba' of Fascist culture
Cultural modernism under Fascism
The modernist dynamic of Fascism's social transformation
The pursuit of a 'crystalline modernity'
The 'true face' of Fascist modernism ...and the 'look' of Nazism
9 Nazism as a Revitalization Movement
Joseph: A German destiny Reconnecting forwards Nazism's alternative modernity Hitler as a modern propheta
Mein Kampf as a modernist manifesto
Nazi modernization revisited The Weimar Republic as a 'stressed' society
The sacralization of politics under Nazism
Germany's new beginning
10 The Modernism of Nazi culture
Graduating from fin-de-siècle Vienna 'In the mind of the Führer' The modernism of Nazi art
Aesthetic modernism under Nazism
A modernist classicism
The modernism of Nazi music
Racially acceptable literature and dance Through the lens of Nazism The 'destructive creation' of Nazi modernism
11 The Third Reich's Biopolitical Modernism
Nazi Joy of Life
The 'otherness' of Nazi modernity Planning the Third Reich
Converting to Hitler Nazism's marriage of technology with Being The Nazi cult of technocratic modernism
The modernist racial state
The 'ecology' of genocide
12 Casting Off
Ending without closing
Maximalizing modernism A footnote on postmodernity Fascism: neither modern nor anti-modern The modernist causality of generic fascism The role of modernism in abortive fascisms A modernist Iron Guard? Modernist intellectuals and fascism Locating fascisms in 'something larger'
The modernism of humanistic research
Postscript: A Different Beginning
The greening of Dionysus
A different beginning?
Appendix: More on Methodology
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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