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A Fascist Century

Editors: Feldman, Matthew

DOI: 10.1057/9780230594135

ISBN: 978-0-230-22089-8

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Oct 21, 2015

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I am no longer human. I am a Titan. A god!

Griffin, Roger

Pages: 3 –23

[Some two decades ago, Mona Ozouf’s Festivals and the French Revolution1 provided impressive testimony to the centrality of myth and ritual in the dynamics of even a ‘modern’, ‘rational’ revolution purportedly carried out in the name of Enlightenment principles. Now that, at long last, some...
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Modernity Under the New Order

Griffin, Roger

Pages: 24 –45

[Any attempt to conceptualise the relationship of fascism and modernity means operating with two terms which are semantic mine-fields in their own right and about whose definition a formidable literature has grown up. What makes matters worse is that even some of the most perceptive scholarly...
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Exploding the Continuum of History

Griffin, Roger

Pages: 46 –68

[Walter Benjamin’s insight into the temporal dimension of revolution is contained within one of what became known as his ‘Theses on the Philosophy of History’, a series of illuminations formulated during his personal ‘moment of danger’1 – exile in Paris from the Third Reich, just months before...
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Fatal Attraction: Why Nazism Appealed to Voters

Griffin, Roger

Pages: 71 –82

[There was no Nazi ‘seizure of power’, or Machtergreifung, in the sense of an armed coup. In January 1933, Hitler was appointed Chancellor by President Hindenburg, and went on to become the absolute dictator (or ‘Führer’) of Germany by exploiting legal constitutional procedures, in a process of...
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Hooked Crosses and Forking Paths

Griffin, Roger

Pages: 83 –113

[InThe Garden of the Forking Paths, Luis Borges evokes a continually unfolding world of virtual realities which are either actualised or not according to the route taken by the protagonist. Borges’ Library of Babel, described in minute detail in another short story, contains books written with...
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No racism, thanks, we’re British

Griffin, Roger

Pages: 117 –131

[‘This sceptred isle […] this other Eden, demi-paradise, this fortress built for nature by herself, against infection and the hand of war.’ Shakespeare’s words from Act 2 Scene 1 of Richard II, written some four hundred years ago, express how many Britons still fondly imagine their homeland. As...
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Europe for the Europeans

Griffin, Roger

Pages: 132 –180

[‘The century that began full of self-confidence in the ultimate triumph of Western liberal democracy seems at its close to be to be returning full circle to where it started.’1 These words are taken from the second paragraph of the now-famous article published in the (at the time somewhat...
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Fascism’s New Faces (and New Facelessness) in the ‘post-fascist’ Epoch

Griffin, Roger

Pages: 181 –202

[The European New Right, so alarmed at the prospect of the comprehensive homogenisation of culture in the wake of the inexorable process of globalisation, should take comfort that there is no equivalent of McDonaldisation in the human sciences. On the contrary, the latter continues to host a...

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