Beyond the Fascist Century: Essays in Honour of Roger Griffin 3030468305, 9783030468309

This book evaluates the current and future state of fascism studies, reflecting on the first hundred years of fascism an

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Table of contents :
Contents
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction: Fascism at 100 (and a Bit)
Aiming for the Sky: The Nature of Fascism (1991)
The Controversy Around the ‘New Consensus’
Expanding the Horizons
The Study of Fascism as an Ongoing ‘Collaborative Project’
Structure and Content of the Volume
Bibliography
Part I Theoretical Perspectives
2 Palingenesis and Totalitarianism in Roger Griffin’s Interpretation of Fascism
The Uncertain Relationship Between Fascism and Totalitarianism
The 2005 Introduction
Commonalities Between Fascism and Communism
The Iordachi Symposium
Reduction and Teleology in Griffin’s Recent Account of Palingenesis
Palingenetic Impulse and Totalitarian Trajectory
Back to the Fascism-Communism Overlap
Conclusion
Bibliography
3 Fascist Communities of Action and Violence: A Praxeological Approach
Trends in Comparative Fascism Studies
The Praxeological Analysis of Fascism
Fascism
Context: The Situatedness of Fascists’ Positions and Practices
Violence as Social Practice
Conclusion
Bibliography
4 Working Across Bounded Entities: Fascism, ‘Para-Fascism’, and Ideational Mobilities in Interwar Europe
The ‘New Consensus’ and Its Critics
Mobility, Synthesis, and the ‘Third Way’
Fascism Without Fascists?
Bibliography
5 Neo-Fascism: A Footnote to the Fascist Epoch?
Three Trends in the Evolution of Neo-Fascism
The Birth of ‘Neo-Fascism’ (with a Capital F)
Pan-Europeanism: The Birth of (Lower-Case) Neo-Fascism
Neo-Fascism and the Meta-Political
Neo-Fascism and Rehabilitating the Fascist Past
Some Closing Observations
Bibliography
Part II Case Studies
6 Fascism 1919–2019: A False Centenary
Bibliography
7 Approaching Generic Fascism from the Margins: On the Uses of ‘Palingenesis’ in the Romanian Context
Approaching Generic Fascism from the Margins: On the Uses of ‘Palingenesis’ in the Romanian Context
‘The Resurrection of the Nation’
Enemies of the Resurrection
Palingenetic Temporalities
Transnationalising Palingenesis
Conclusion
Bibliography
8 The History of Czech Fascism: A Reappraisal
The Historiography of Czech/Slovak Fascisms and the ‘New Consensus’
Let the Welfare of the Motherland Be Our Supreme Law!
Conclusions
Bibliography
9 Era Fascista: Italian Fascism’s New Beginning and Its Roman Past Future
The Fascist Vision of the Future
Aufbruch into a New Era: Revolution, Era Fascista and New Man
Bonifica and Palingenesis: The Rebirth of Eternal Rome
Bibliography
10 From the Fringes to the State: The Transformation of the Falange into a State Party
Studying the Spanish Falange in Its Own Context
The Falange’s Bid for Power
Falangist Hopes for the New Order
Bureaucracy and Social Control
Conclusions
Bibliography
11 Brazil in the Era of Fascism: The “New State” of Getúlio Vargas
The Authoritarian ‘Reverse Wave’ of the Interwar Period in Latin America
Vargas’s ‘New State’
Conclusion: The End of the ‘New State’?
Bibliography
12 From Slime Mould to Rhizome Revisited: The Anglophone Neo-Nazi Cultic Milieu, Past and Present
The ‘Habitat’ for Fascism
‘The Cultic Milieu of Groupuscular Neo-Fascism’3
Arnold Leese and Anglophone Neo-Nazism
Contemporary Neo-Nazism and Groupuscularity
Lone Actor Terrorism and Contemporary Fascism
Concluding Remarks
Bibliography
13 From ‘Generic’ to ‘Real-Existing’ Fascism: Towards a New Transnational and Historical-Comparative Agenda in Fascism Studies
Taking Fascism in East-Central Europe Seriously
Fascism, Palingenesis, and Charismatic Nationalism
From the Comparative Method to Global and Transnational Approaches
COMFAS and Comparative Fascism Studies
Bibliography
Index

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