Fascist Temptation - Creating a Political Community of Experience

This book posits a new theory of fascism as a radical political community of experience.
The author engages with a range of thinkers both critical of and inspiring fascism including Walter Benjamin, Albert Camus, Ernst Jünger, Carl Schmitt, Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger.
This book will be of interest to scholars of the history of political thought, fascism and Nazism.

List of contents

Introduction  1. Walter Benjamin's Political Phenomenology of Fascism  2. Albert Camus and the Warning of the Nihilist Temptation  3. Ernst Jünger: It is Not What We Are Fighting For, But How We Fight  4. Carl Schmitt's Community: Friends Against Enemies  5. Nietzsche and Heidegger: From Nihilism to Community of Experience  6. The Fascist Order

Summary

This book posits new a theory of fascism as a radical political community of experience.

Product details

• Authors: David Ohana, David (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Ohana, Ohana David
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2022
• EAN: 9780367683733
• ISBN: 978-0-367-68373-3
• No. of pages: 218
• Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, Nationalism, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Politics & government, c 1500 onwards to present day, Fascism & Nazism, Political structures: democracy, Politics and government, Far-right political ideologies and movements, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards