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Informationen zum Autor Tom Villis is a Research Fellow at Robinson College, Cambridge. Klappentext This book illuminates a vital facet of right-wing thought in the first decades of the twentieth century! which had a powerful hold on Europe's intellectual elite. Prominent literary figures! such as Alfred Orange! Ezra Pound! Hilaire Belloc and the Chestertons! led a revolt against liberal parliamentary democracy in Britain. This group--a self-identifying Nietzschean elite eager to lead the masses--despised parliaments as representing and embodying a "nation." Tom Villis examines the literary works! private papers! correspondence and memoirs of the leaders of this anti-Semitic! anti-modern! anti-women's rights movement that formed the intellectual underpinning of European fascism. Looks at a vital facet of Right-wing thought in the early twentieth century. Presenting an approach uniting intellectual history with political theory, this book is a contribution to the cultural debate on 'intellectuals and the masses'. Zusammenfassung Looks at a vital facet of Right-wing thought in the early twentieth century. Presenting an approach uniting intellectual history with political theory, this book is a contribution to the cultural debate on 'intellectuals and the masses'. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments – vii Introduction – 1 Readers, Writers and Intellectual Networks – 19 Elitism and the Revolt of the Masses – 41 The Forging of an Anti-Parliamentary Tradition – 72 The Nation – 107 The New Age, the New Witness and the Jews – 146 ‘Sterile Virgins on the Drab Rampage’: the Image of Women in the New Ages and the New Witness – 174 Conclusion – 192 Notes – 197 Bibliography – 239 Index – 255
