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The new faces of fascism
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- Book Synopsis
- What does Fascism mean at the beginning of the twenty-first century? When we pronounce this word, our memory goes back to the years between the two world wars and envisions a dark landscape of violence, dictatorships, and genocide. These images spontaneously surface in the face of the rise of radical right, racism, xenophobia, islamophobia and terrorism, the last of which is often depicted as a form of "Islamic fascism." Beyond some superficial analogies, however, all these contemporary tendencies reveal many differences from historical fascism, probably greater than their affinities. Paradoxically, the fear of terrorism nourishes the populist and racist rights, with Marine Le Pen in France or Donald Trump in the US claiming to be the most effective ramparts against "Jihadist fascism". But since fascism was a product of imperialism, can we define as fascist a terrorist movement whose main target is Western domination? Disentangling these contradictory threads, Enzo Traverso's historical gaze helps to decipher the enigmas of the present. He suggests the concept of post-fascism-a hybrid phenomenon, neither the reproduction of old fascism nor something completely different-to define a set of heterogeneous and transitional movements, suspended between an accomplished past still haunting our memories and an unknown future.
- About The Author
- Enzo Traverso is a historian. He studied in Italy and France, where he received his doctorate from the EHESS of Paris. Since 2013, he is Susan and Barton Winokur Professor in the Humanities at Cornell University, NY. He has written several books, translated into some twenty languages. His writings are frequently hosted by Jacobin, Contretemps, Il manifesto, and other magazines.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781788730464
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Verso, (15 January 2019)
- Number of Pages
- 176
- Weight
- 364 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 210 x 140 x 20.6 mm
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