Fascism and the masses: The revolt against the last humans, 1848-1945

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Highlighting the “mass” nature of interwar European fascism has long become commonplace. Throughout the years, numerous critics have construed fascism as a phenomenon of mass society, perhaps the ultimate expression of mass politics. This study deconstructs this long-standing perception. It argues that the entwining of fascism with the masses is a remarkable transubstantiation of a movement which understood and presented itself as a militant rejection of the ideal of mass politics, and indeed of mass society and mass culture more broadly conceived. Thus, rather than “massifying” society, fascism was the culmination of a long effort on the part of the élites and the middle classes to de-massify it. The perennially menacing mass-seen as plebeian and insubordinate-was to be drilled into submission, replaced by supposedly superior collective entities, such as the nation, the race, or the people. Focusing on Italian fascism and German National Socialism, but consulting fascist movements and individuals elsewhere in interwar Europe, the book incisively shows how fascism is best understood as ferociously resisting what Elias referred to as “the civilizing process” and what Marx termed “the social individual.” Fascism, notably, was a revolt against what Nietzsche described as the peaceful, middling and egalitarian “Last Humans.”.

اللغة الأصليةالإنجليزيّة
مكان النشرNew York
ناشرRoutledge
عدد الصفحات431
رقم المعيار الدولي للكتب (الإلكتروني)9781351179980
رقم المعيار الدولي للكتب (المطبوع)9780815385851
المعرِّفات الرقمية للأشياء
حالة النشرنُشِر - 1 يناير 2018

سلسلة المنشورات

الاسمRoutledge studies in cultural history
مستوى الصوت56

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