Fascism (eBook)

The Career of a Concept

Paul Gottfried (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
256 Seiten
Northern Illinois University Press (Verlag)
978-1-60909-183-5 (ISBN)

Infos

"For historians, Fascism offers clear and provocative insights and arguments, and the very detailed notes are especially helpful.... Recommended."â• Choice

What does it mean to label someone a fascist? Today, it is equated with denouncing him or her as a Nazi. But as intellectual historian Paul E. Gottfried writes in this provocative yet even-handed study, the term's meaning has evolved over the years. Gottfried examines the semantic twists and turns the term has endured since the 1930s and traces the word's polemical function within the context of present ideological struggles.

Like "conservatism," "liberalism," and other words whose meanings have changed with time, "fascism" has been used arbitrarily over the years and now stands for a host of iniquities that progressives, multiculturalists, and libertarians oppose, even if they offer no single, coherent account of the historic evil they condemn. Certain factors have contributed to the term's imprecise usage, Gottfried writes, including the equation of all fascisms with Nazism and Hitler, as well as the rise of a post-Marxist left that expresses predominantly cultural opposition to bourgeois society and its Christian and/or national components.

Those who stand in the way of social change are dismissed as "fascist," he contends, an epithet that is no longer associated with state corporatism and other features of fascism that were once essential but are now widely ignored. Gottfried outlines the specific historical meaning of the term and argues that it should not be used indiscriminately to describe those who hold unpopular opinions.

His important study will appeal to political scientists, intellectual historians, and general readers interested in politics and history.

Autor

Paul E. Gottfried is the retired Horace Raffensperger Professor of Humanities at Elizabethtown College and a Guggenheim recipient. He is the author of numerous books, including The Search for Historical Meaning and, most recently, Leo Strauss and the Conservative Movement in America.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.2.2016
• Verlagsort: Ithaca
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: 2024 elections • anti-democratic • Antifa • Anti-Fa • authoritarianism • Authoritarian regime • authoritarian regimes • autocracy • books to understand fascism • Civil Rights • Cold War • communism • conservative viewpoints • Cult of personality • Cultural Criticism • cultural shifts • current politics • defining fascism • Dictatorship • dictatorship of the proletariat • Dictatorships • ethnic supremacy • facism • facist internationalism • Far-Right Ideology • far-right movements • far-right politics • Fascism • fascism and modernization • fascism debate • fascism in America • fascist • fascist books • fascist ideology • fascist leader • fascist movements • Fascist propaganda • fascist state • fascist symbol • fascist utopia • historical context • history of authoritarian • history of fascism • history of political ideologies • history of political movements • history of totalitarianism • ideological battles • ideological struggles • intellectual history, post-Marxist • left-wing narratives • Liberal Fascism • national identity • Nationalism • Nazi comparisons • one-party rule • origns of fascism • polarization • political beliefs • Political Discourse • political extremism • Political History • Political Ideologies • Political Ideology • political insults • political labeling • Political movements • Political Philosophy • Political Polarization • Political repression • political rhetoric • Political Science • political theory • Populism • post-Marxist Left • problems of current politics • progressive opposition • revolutionary right • right-wing critiques • Suppression of dissent • term evolution • theory of fascism • theory of politics • Totalitarianism • totalitarianism and facism • totalitarian regime • understanding facism • what does fascism mean • what is facism • what is fascism • World History • World Politics
• ISBN-10: 1-60909-183-3 / 1609091833
• ISBN-13: 978-1-60909-183-5 / 9781609091835