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Federico Finchelstein Fascist Mythologies (Hardback)
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- Book Title
- Fascist Mythologies
- Title
- Fascist Mythologies
- Subtitle
- The History and Politics of Unreason in Borges, Freud, and Schmit
- ISBN-10
- 0231183208
- EAN
- 9780231183208
- ISBN
- 9780231183208
- Genre
- Law & Politics
- Release Date
- 07/05/2022
- Release Year
- 2022
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Subject Area
- Literary Criticism, Philosophy, Political Science
- Publication Name
- Fascist Mythologies : the History and Politics of Unreason in Borges, Freud, and Schmitt
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Item Length
- 7.8 in
- Subject
- Political Ideologies / Fascism & Totalitarianism, General, Political, Subjects & Themes / Politics
- Publication Year
- 2022
- Series
- New Directions in Critical Theory Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Item Weight
- 9.4 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.1 in
- Number of Pages
- 208 Pages
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Publisher
Columbia University Press
ISBN-10
0231183208
ISBN-13
9780231183208
eBay Product ID (ePID)
10057245768
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Fascist Mythologies : the History and Politics of Unreason in Borges, Freud, and Schmitt
Publication Year
2022
Subject
Political Ideologies / Fascism & Totalitarianism, General, Political, Subjects & Themes / Politics
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Philosophy, Political Science
Series
New Directions in Critical Theory Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
9.4 Oz
Item Length
7.8 in
Item Width
5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2021-036400
Dewey Edition
23
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In Fascist Mythologies , Finchelstein brings together three very different authors: the father of psychoanalysis, the greatest Latin American writer, and the legal scholar who became the Nazi ideologue. Yet, as each one of them is analyzed, we begin to see how power and myth are inextricably related in fascism., Finchelstein's book on Borges, Freud, and Schmitt provides insightful analyses of these three significant figures in the history of modern thought. His valuable focus is the bearing of their work on the approach of fascism to such crucial problems as mythology, ideology, power, leadership, death, and violence--problems that unfortunately are pertinent not only to their time but to our own as well., Finchelstein's excellent new book explores a word we might take for granted: mythology. This word links politics with religion and with literature. Thanks to Fascist Mythologies , readers will appreciate the importance, the 'sacredness' we can sense in the pre-fascist use of the term, meaning the autonomy of a narrative imagination beyond material experience. Bringing creative writer Jorge Luis Borges into the critique of fascism, to accompany political theorists and psychoanalysts, adds a liberatory dimension to thinking about the social pathology of fascism and a possible route for therapy. It is to safeguard and to cultivate the practice of creative thinking, to recognize that it shouldn't flatten into representing the 'real' as the fascists had done. The arts can again become a laboratory for thinking beyond what exists, and resisting immediate appropriations of new narratives. Literature can again stimulate critical thinking. And Federico Finchelstein's book is an important stimulus to get us working in this critical and imaginative direction., Scratching the skin of second nature we find the basic animal instinct that seals the unity of the horde--this is the primordial face of fascism. In this timely and needed book, Federico Finchelstein brings to surface through a compelling study of myth in politics the psycho-aesthetical forging of the ideology of fascism, something we believed buried forever under the butchery of extermination camps and politics as celebration of violence., Federico Finchelstein reinterprets the relationship between fascism and myth through different but extremely interesting perspectives: Freud's psychoanalysis, Borges's literature, and Schmitt's political theory. Solidly documented, conceptually innovative and elegantly written, this book is a gem of intellectual history.
Series Volume Number
79
Dewey Decimal
320.533
Table Of Content
Preface Introduction 1. Freud, Fascism, and the Return of the Myth 2. Borges and Fascism as Mythology 3. Borges and the Persistence of Myth 4. A Fascist History: Carl Schmitt's Political Theory of Myth Conclusion Acknowledgements Notes Index
Synopsis
Federico Finchelstein draws on a striking combination of thinkers--Jorge Luis Borges, Sigmund Freud, and Carl Schmitt--to consider fascism as a form of political mythmaking. At a moment when forces redolent of fascism cast a shadow over world affairs, this book provides a timely critical analysis of the dangers of myth in modern politics., For fascism, myth was reality--or was realer than the real. Fascist notions of the leader, the nation, power, and violence were steeped in mythic imagery and the fantasy of transcending history. A mythologized primordial past would inspire the heroic overthrow of a debased present to achieve a violently redeemed future. What is distinctive about fascist mythology, and how does this aspect of fascism help explain its perils in the past and present? Federico Finchelstein draws on a striking combination of thinkers--Jorge Luis Borges, Sigmund Freud, and Carl Schmitt--to consider fascism as a form of political mythmaking. He shows that Borges's literary and critical work and Freud's psychoanalytic writing both emphasize the mythical and unconscious dimensions of fascist politics. Finchelstein considers their ideas of the self, violence, and the sacred as well as the relationship between the victims of fascist violence and the ideological myths of its perpetrators. He draws on Freud and Borges to analyze the work of a variety of Latin American and European fascist intellectuals, with particular attention to Schmitt's political theology. Contrasting their approaches to the logic of unreason, Finchelstein probes the limits of the dichotomy between myth and reason and shows the centrality of this opposition to understanding the ideology of fascism. At a moment when forces redolent of fascism cast a shadow over world affairs, this book provides a timely historical and critical analysis of the dangers of myth in modern politics.
LC Classification Number
JC481.F5179 2022
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