The New Fascist Body
1st Edition
Published on 8. September 2025
Book
100 pages
978-3-948200-20-6 (ISBN)
Description
The success of new far-right movements cannot be explained by fear or rage alone - the pleasures of aggression and violence are just as essential. As such, racism is particularly intense when it is erotically charged, migration presenting as a sexual threat to white women being one of many examples. Germany's strikingly successful right-wing political party Alternative für Deutschland is, according to the historian Dagmar Herzog, characterized by this "sexy racism," with its second main feature being that of an obsessive hostility to disability - both elements resonating strongly with Nazism. In The New Fascist Body, Herzog connects her analysis of fascism's libidinous energy with its animus against bodies perceived as imperfect. Only by studying the emotional and intellectual worlds of past fascisms can we understand and combat their current manifestations.
The book features an afterword by Alberto Toscano, author of Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis (Verso 2023).
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Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Target group
Young adult
Adult education
Kulturschaffende, Aktivist*innen, Studierende, Intellektuelle, Politikinteressierte
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Klappenbroschur
Illustrations
14
Dimensions
Height: 182 mm
Width: 106 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
94 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-948200-20-6 (9783948200206)
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Author
historian
Dagmar Herzog is Distinguished Professor of History and the Daniel Rose Faculty Scholar at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her many books include The Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics and Germany's Twentieth Century (2024), Cold War Freud: Psychoanalysis in an Age of Catastrophes (2017) and Sex after Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany (2005).
Dagmar Herzog is Distinguished Professor of History and the Daniel Rose Faculty Scholar at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her many books include The Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics and Germany's Twentieth Century (2024), Cold War Freud: Psychoanalysis in an Age of Catastrophes (2017) and Sex after Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany (2005).
Afterword
cultural critic, social theorist, philosopher, translator
Alberto Toscano teaches at the School of Communications, Simon Fraser University, and codirects the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the author of Late Fascism (Verso, 2023), Terms of Disorder: Keywords for an Interregnum (Seagull, 2023), and Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea (Verso, 2010; 2017, 2nd ed.), among other books. He is a member of the editorial board of the journal Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory and series editor of Seagull Essays and the Italian List for Seagull Books. He has also translated the work of Antonio Negri, Alain Badiou, Franco Fortini, and Furio Jesi.
Alberto Toscano teaches at the School of Communications, Simon Fraser University, and codirects the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the author of Late Fascism (Verso, 2023), Terms of Disorder: Keywords for an Interregnum (Seagull, 2023), and Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea (Verso, 2010; 2017, 2nd ed.), among other books. He is a member of the editorial board of the journal Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory and series editor of Seagull Essays and the Italian List for Seagull Books. He has also translated the work of Antonio Negri, Alain Badiou, Franco Fortini, and Furio Jesi.