
The Birth of Fascist Ideology
From Cultural Rebellion to Political Revolution
Zeev Sternhell(Author)
Princeton University Press
Published on 23. July 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-0-691-04486-6 (ISBN)
Description
When The Birth of Fascist Ideology was first published in 1989 in France and in 1993 in Italy, it aroused a storm of response, both positive and negative. In Sternhell's view, fascism was much more than an episode in the history of Italy. He argues here that it possessed a coherent ideology with deep roots in European civilization. Long before fascism became a political force, he maintains, it was a major cultural phenomenon.
Reviews / Votes
"[This book] deserves to be read and, whatever one's reservations, to be considered seriously...[It] rectifies the stereotyped and narrowly derogatory image of a movement that was as representative and influential as its more acceptable contemporaries, and more original than many."--Eugen Weber, The New York Times Book Review "[This] work obliges us to ground any study of fascism in the particular moment toward the end of the nineteenth century when politics expanded dizzily from a gentleman's hobby to a matter of mass opinion and votes. [Sternhell] shows irrefutably that fascist doctrine had complex cultural origins, drawing not only from conservative efforts to adapt to the novel requirements of mass politics,...but also from dissent within the left against the materialism, positivism, and reformism that mainstream Marxism shared with social democracy in the 1890s."--Robert O. Paxton, The New York Review of BooksMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
New Jersey
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
596 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-691-04486-6 (9780691044866)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Zeev Sternhell is Leon Blum Professor of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. David Maisel has also translated Sternhell's Neither Right nor Left: Fascist Ideology in France (forthcoming from Princeton).
Content
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Fascism as an Alternative Political Culture3Ch. 1Georges Sorel and the Antimaterialist Revision of Marxism36Ch. 2Revolutionary Revisionism in France92Ch. 3Revolutionary Syndicalism in Italy131Ch. 4The Socialist-National Synthesis160Ch. 5The Mussolini Crossroads: From the Critique of Marxism to National Socialism and Fascism195Epilogue: From a Cultural Rebellion to a Political Revolution233Notes259Bibliography315Index327