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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Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | New Directions in Critical Theory ;
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Table of Contents:
- 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