Fascist Mythologies : : The History and Politics of Unreason in Borges, Freud, and Schmitt / / Federico Finchelstein.
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 violen...
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Finchelstein, Federico, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Fascist Mythologies : The History and Politics of Unreason in Borges, Freud, and Schmitt / Federico Finchelstein. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2022] ©2022 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda New Directions in Critical Theory ; 79 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Myth and Fascism -- 2 Freud, Fascism, and the Return of the Myth -- 3 Borges and Fascism as Mythology -- 4 Borges and the Persistence of Myth -- 5 A Fascist History Carl Schmitt’s Political Theory of Myth -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mai 2023) POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Fascism & Totalitarianism. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022 9783110749663 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English 9783110993899 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 9783110994810 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Political Science 2022 English 9783110994513 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Political Science 2022 9783110994407 ZDB-23-PLW https://doi.org/10.7312/finc18320 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231544795 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231544795/original |
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