Fascist Mythologies
The History and Politics of Unreason in Borges, Freud, and Schmitt (New Directions in Critical Theory, 79)
Federico Finchelstein
For fascism, myth was reality-or was realer than the real. Fascist notions of the leader, the nation, power, and violence were steeped in mythic imagery and the fantasy of transcending history. A mythologized primordial past would inspire the heroic overthrow of a debased present to achieve a violently redeemed future. What is distinctive about fas...
Publish Date
2022-07-05T00:00:00.000Z
2022-07-05T00:00:00.000Z
First Published in 2015
Goodreads rating
3.33
ISBN
9780231183215
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2022-05-18T17:49:22.000Z
Such a great feeling - I’m looking forward to sharing it soon!
Meanwhile this is a terrific book that I was lucky to read early. Mythmaking is central to how fascism works but still underexamined. FF offers great insight into why fascism needs myths👇 – source