A. James Gregor
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Adolf Hitler
Alfredo Rocco
Anarcho-syndicalism
Anti-intellectualism
Aristocracy
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Benito Mussolini
Bolsheviks
Bourgeoisie
Capitalism
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City-state
Collectivism
Corporatism
Dictatorship
Economic growth
Economic liberalism
Enrico Corradini
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Fascism and ideology
Foreign policy
Friedrich Engels
Gaetano Mosca
Georges Sorel
Giovanni Gentile
Giovanni Preziosi
Governance
Grand Council of Fascism
Ideology
Imperialism
Individualism
Industrialisation
Intellectual
Italian Fascism
Italian nationalism
Italians
Julius Evola
Karl Marx
Legislation
Manifesto
March on Rome
Marxism
Modernity
National syndicalism
Nationality
Nazi Germany
Nazism
Neo-fascism
Philosopher
Philosophy
Plutocracy
Political philosophy
Politics
Positivism
Princeton University Press
Proletarian nation
Proletarian revolution
Racism
Renzo De Felice
Revolutionary movement
Sergio Panunzio
Social science
Sovereignty
Soviet Union
State (polity)
Suggestion
Syndicalism
Theoretician (Marxism)
Totalitarianism
Ugo Spirito
Vilfredo Pareto
Product details
- ISBN 9780691127903
- Weight: 425g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 13 Aug 2006
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Fascism has traditionally been characterized as irrational and anti-intellectual, finding expression exclusively as a cluster of myths, emotions, instincts, and hatreds. This intellectual history of Italian Fascism--the product of four decades of work by one of the leading experts on the subject in the English-speaking world--provides an alternative account. A. James Gregor argues that Italian Fascism may have been a flawed system of belief, but it was neither more nor less irrational than other revolutionary ideologies of the twentieth century. Gregor makes this case by presenting for the first time a chronological account of the major intellectual figures of Italian Fascism, tracing how the movement's ideas evolved in response to social and political developments inside and outside of Italy. Gregor follows Fascist thought from its beginnings in socialist ideology about the time of the First World War--when Mussolini himself was a leader of revolutionary socialism--through its evolution into a separate body of thought and to its destruction in the Second World War.
Along the way, Gregor offers extended accounts of some of Italian Fascism's major thinkers, including Sergio Panunzio and Ugo Spirito, Alfredo Rocco (Mussolini's Minister of Justice), and Julius Evola, a bizarre and sinister figure who has inspired much contemporary "neofascism." Gregor's account reveals the flaws and tensions that dogged Fascist thought from the beginning, but shows that if we want to come to grips with one of the most important political movements of the twentieth century, we nevertheless need to understand that Fascism had serious intellectual as well as visceral roots.
A. James Gregor is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of "Italian Fascism and Developmental Dictatorship" and "The Fascist Persuasion in Radical Politics" (Princeton), and "The Faces of Janus: Marxism and Fascism in the Twentieth Century" (Yale). He has been awarded the title "Knight of the Order of Merit of the Republic" by the Italian government for his publications on the history of Italy.
