
Fascism's Return
Scandal, Revision, and Ideology Since 1980
Richard J. Golsan(Editor)
University of Nebraska Press
Will be published approx. on 1. May 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
331 pages
978-0-8032-7071-8 (ISBN)
Description
The past fifteen years have witnessed the renewed presence of fascism in European political and cultural life. In addition, there have been scandals surrounding the fascist pasts of numerous renowned intellectuals, including Martin Heidegger, Paul de Man, and Maurice Blanchot. In Fascism's Return, eleven leading American and European scholars examine the resurgence of fascism from many angles, providing an essential and timely view of this troubling moment in European political, cultural, and intellectual history. Intellectual and public scandals surrounding the fascist past-including the highly publicized Barbie and Touvier trials in France-are addressed. Other writers focus on controversial efforts to revise the historical representation of fascism in Germany and France. The reemergence of the "new" fascist movements and ideologies in various European nations is also examined. A final essay considers the controversial U. S. support during the 1980s of Central American dictatorships.
As editor Richard J. Golsan notes, the essays in this volume "illustrate a multitude of ways in which fascism continues to make its presence felt in western democratic societies, erupting with disturbing frequency as a 'return of the repressed' in judicial and artistic scandals as well as in historical, critical, and political debates."
As editor Richard J. Golsan notes, the essays in this volume "illustrate a multitude of ways in which fascism continues to make its presence felt in western democratic societies, erupting with disturbing frequency as a 'return of the repressed' in judicial and artistic scandals as well as in historical, critical, and political debates."
Reviews / Votes
"Fascism's Return traces these intricate European genealogies through the 1980s and 1990s, providing a means to gain analytical purchase on inchoate expressions of this phenomenon."-Douglas R. Holmes, Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism -- Douglas R. Holmes Canadian Review of Studies in NationalismMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Lincoln
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 227 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
503 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8032-7071-8 (9780803270718)
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Person
Richard J. Golsan is a professor of French at Texas A&M University. He is author of "Service inutile": A Study of the Tragic in the Theatre of Henry de Montherlant and editor of Memory, the Holocaust, and French Justice: The Bousquet and Touvier Affairs.