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A Fascist CenturyFascism’s New Faces (and New Facelessness) in the ‘post-fascist’ Epoch

A Fascist Century: Fascism’s New Faces (and New Facelessness) in the ‘post-fascist’ Epoch [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 steady proliferation of contested definitions, methodological assumptions, conceptual frameworks, and ethical positions in every sphere of academic specialism. The work by Ernst Nolte that helped (and only helped) pioneer comparative Fascist Studies thirty years ago was Der Faschismus in seiner Epoche [translated into English as Three Faces of Fascism]. One of its many pronouncements was that‘the era of the world wars is identical with the era of fascism’.1 Since then, most works devoted to the comparative analysis of fascism (indeed, almost all produced outside Germany except for Marxist ones) have explicitly or implicitly corroborated this view, despite few of these texts applying the ‘philosophy of history’ that underpinned Nolte’s interpretative scheme.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Fascist CenturyFascism’s New Faces (and New Facelessness) in the ‘post-fascist’ Epoch

Editors: Feldman, Matthew
Griffin, Roger
A Fascist Century — Oct 21, 2015
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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2008
ISBN
978-0-230-22089-8
Pages
181 –202
DOI
10.1057/9780230594135_8
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Abstract

[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 steady proliferation of contested definitions, methodological assumptions, conceptual frameworks, and ethical positions in every sphere of academic specialism. The work by Ernst Nolte that helped (and only helped) pioneer comparative Fascist Studies thirty years ago was Der Faschismus in seiner Epoche [translated into English as Three Faces of Fascism]. One of its many pronouncements was that‘the era of the world wars is identical with the era of fascism’.1 Since then, most works devoted to the comparative analysis of fascism (indeed, almost all produced outside Germany except for Marxist ones) have explicitly or implicitly corroborated this view, despite few of these texts applying the ‘philosophy of history’ that underpinned Nolte’s interpretative scheme.]

Published: Oct 21, 2015

Keywords: Ideal Type; Liberal Democracy; Democratic Politics; Interwar Period; Holocaust Denial

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