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Activism
Anti-Americanism
Anti-racism
Antonio Gramsci
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Authoritarianism
Bourgeois nationalism
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Catholic Action
Class conflict
Crisis of Leadership
Culture industry
Decolonization
Demagogue
Disenchantment
Enoch Powell
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European integration
Far-right politics
Iconoclasm
Ideology
Imperialism
Insurgency
Integralism
Jacques Maritain
Jean Monnet
Jean-Marie Le Pen
Joseph Chamberlain
Konrad Adenauer
Left-wing politics
Liberalism
Marcel Lefebvre
Marxism
Member state
Modernity
Moral economy
Multiculturalism
Nation state
Nationalism
Nazism
Neo-fascism
New class
New racism
Nouvelle Droite
Palingenetic ultranationalism
Political economy
Politician
Politics
Politique
Populism
Public sphere
Racism
Radicalism (historical)
Recuperation (politics)
Reflections on Violence
Reformism
Right-wing politics
Romanticism
Scientism
Social justice
Sovereignty
Subsidiarity
Subversion
Superiority (short story)
Symbolic power
The Postmodern Condition
Treaty
Underclass
Unemployment
Utilitarianism
Welfare state
Welfarism
Working class
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- ISBN 9780691050898
- Weight: 397g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 29 Oct 2000
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Over the past 15 years, the project of advanced European integration has followed a complex secular and cosmopolitan agenda. As that agenda has evolved, however, so have various hard-line populist movements with goals diametrically opposed to the ideals of a harmonious European Union. Spearheaded by figures such as Jean-Marie Le Pen, the controversial leader of France's National Front party, these radical movements have become increasingly influential and, because of their philosophical affinities with fascism and national socialism--politically worrisome. In Integral Europe, anthropologist Douglas Holmes posits that such movements are philosophically rooted in integralism, a sensibility that, in its most benign form, enables people to maintain their ethnic identity and solidarity within the context of an increasingly pluralistic society. Taken to irrational extremes by people like Le Pen, integralism is being used to inflame people's feelings of alienation and powerlessness, the by-products of impersonal, transnational "fast-capitalism." The consequences are an invidious politics of exclusion that spawns cultural nationalism, racism, and social disorder.
The analysis moves from northern Italy to Strasbourg and Brussels, the two venues of the European Parliament, and finally to the East End of London. This multi-sited ethnography provides critical perspective on integralism as a form of intimate cultural practice and a violent idiom of estrangement. It combines a wide-ranging review of modern and historical scholarship with two years of field research that included personal interviews with right-wing activists, among them Le Pen and neo-Nazis in inner London. Fascinating, provocative, and sobering, Integral Europe offers a rare inside look at one of modern Europe's most unsettling political trends.
Douglas R. Holmes teaches social anthropology at the Univesrity of Otago, New Zealand. He is the author of Cultural Disenchantment: Worker Peasantries in Northeast Italy (Princeton).
