Description
This wide-ranging collection of academic essays examines the various undertakings by modern intellectuals and ideologues in the process of propaganda and political debate. Matthew Feldman calls attention to the substantial role played in post-Great War Europe and the US by religionsboth familiar monotheisms like Christianity and secular political faiths -- over the last century of upheaval and revolutionary change. While the first part considers Ezra Pound as a case study in fascist 'conversion in Mussolinis Italy, leading to extensive propaganda, the second half examines other fascist ideologues like Martin Heidegger to fascist murderer Anders Behring Breivik, before turning to other leading ideologies in modern Europe and the US, communism and liberalism, covering key figures from Thomas Merton and Albert Camus to the Russian Constructionists and Samuel Beckett, with especial focus on the subjects of modern warfare, political terrorism, and genocide, ranging from Stalinist gulags to the war in Iraq. With thought-provoking discussion of the interplay between belief and modern politics as understood by familiar intellectual voices, this volume will be of interest to scholars and general readers alike.
About the Author
Professor Matthew Feldman is a specialist on fascist ideology and the far-right in Europe and the USA. He is the author or editor of more than 20 books, including three book-length studies, and more than 40 articles or academic book chapters. Published volumes includeClerical Fascism in Interwar Europe(Routledge, 2008), A Fascist Century(Palgrave, 2008), and, with Roger Griffin, the five-volume collectionFascism: Critical Concepts (Routledge 2003). More recent volumes includeDoublespeak:The Rhetoric of the Far-Right since 1945(with Paul Jackson, 2014),The New Man in Radical Right Ideology and Practice, 19191945(with Jorge Dagnino and Paul Stocker, 2017), as well as the journal specials Far-right Populism and Lone Wolf Terrorism in Contemporary Europe (Democracy and Security, 2013) and The Ideologies and Ideologues of the Radical Right (Patterns of Prejudice, 2016). His most recent monograph,Ezra Pounds Fascist Propaganda, 1935-1945,appeared with Palgrave in 2013, and his first collection of essays,Falsifying Beckett, appeared in 2015 with ibidem Press.
Reviews
"We all know Kafkas letter about the effect books should exert: 'If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for?' This question underpins Matthew Feldmans ethical rigor. With a slap in the face or a blow to the head,Politics, Ideology, and Faithreminds us of the need to reopen old and new archives so as to assess key texts of modernism and recent acts of terrorism. One needs to examine to what degree they have been tainted by fascism, denial, totalitarianism, and intolerance. There is a lot to learn from these courageous explorations of the darker sides of our modern and contemporary culture." Professor Jean-Michel Rabate, University of Pennsylvania, American Academy of the Arts and Sciences
Book Information
ISBN 9783838209869
Author Matthew Feldman
Format Paperback
Page Count 430
Imprint ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon
Publisher ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon
Weight(grams) 666g
About the Author
Professor Matthew Feldman is a specialist on fascist ideology and the far-right in Europe and the USA. He is the author or editor of more than 20 books, including three book-length studies, and more than 40 articles or academic book chapters. Published volumes includeClerical Fascism in Interwar Europe(Routledge, 2008), A Fascist Century(Palgrave, 2008), and, with Roger Griffin, the five-volume collectionFascism: Critical Concepts (Routledge 2003). More recent volumes includeDoublespeak:The Rhetoric of the Far-Right since 1945(with Paul Jackson, 2014),The New Man in Radical Right Ideology and Practice, 19191945(with Jorge Dagnino and Paul Stocker, 2017), as well as the journal specials Far-right Populism and Lone Wolf Terrorism in Contemporary Europe (Democracy and Security, 2013) and The Ideologies and Ideologues of the Radical Right (Patterns of Prejudice, 2016). His most recent monograph,Ezra Pounds Fascist Propaganda, 1935-1945,appeared with Palgrave in 2013, and his first collection of essays,Falsifying Beckett, appeared in 2015 with ibidem Press.
Reviews
"We all know Kafkas letter about the effect books should exert: 'If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for?' This question underpins Matthew Feldmans ethical rigor. With a slap in the face or a blow to the head,Politics, Ideology, and Faithreminds us of the need to reopen old and new archives so as to assess key texts of modernism and recent acts of terrorism. One needs to examine to what degree they have been tainted by fascism, denial, totalitarianism, and intolerance. There is a lot to learn from these courageous explorations of the darker sides of our modern and contemporary culture." Professor Jean-Michel Rabate, University of Pennsylvania, American Academy of the Arts and Sciences
Book Information
ISBN 9783838209869
Author Matthew Feldman
Format Paperback
Page Count 430
Imprint ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon
Publisher ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon
Weight(grams) 666g
