Ishay Landa

Fascism and the Masses

The Revolt Against the Last Humans, 1848-1945

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Produktbeschreibung

Departing from the conventional image of fascism as mass-driven, this book analyzes the effort of interwar European fascism to defeat the masses. Fascism endeavored to terminate the secular advance of egalitarian and democratic trends, resisting what Nietzsche described as the reign of the peaceful and mediocre "Last Humans."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 442
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 787g
• ISBN-13: 9780815385851
• ISBN-10: 0815385854
• Artikelnr.: 50856139

Autorenporträt

Ishay Landa is Senior Lecturer of History at the Israeli Open University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Masses and the Fascist Political Unconscious 1. The Rise
of the Last Human I: The Formation of Mass Society 2. The Rise of the Last
Human II: The Opposition to Mass Society 3. Fascism and Mass Politics 4.
Fascism and Mass Society I: Cultural Questions 5. Fascism and Mass Society
II: Consumption, Leisure, Americanism 6. The Wandering Womb: Fascism and
Gender 7. The Wandering Jew: National Socialism and Antisemitism. Epilogue:
Nietzsche, the Left, and the Last Humans

Rezensionen

"I don't believe I exaggerate when I say this is the most significant work on the subject since Lukács' The Destruction of Reason or Trotsky's great, prophetic writings of the 1930s. (...) Landa's account contains a strong, uplifting and profound humanity as he reminds us that 'the last humans' also represent our last best hope."

- Tony McKenna, Marx & Philosophy Review of Books

"Fascism and the Masses is an immensely rich and rewarding text, drawing from an unbelievably wide array of material."

- Guy Lancaster, Capital & Class