The Nature of Fascism

"This book attributes the terrible human consequences of fascism as it is realized to the palingenetic view that forms its mythical core. That view does not support a creative interaction and strong integration with the outside world, but a total and perverted identification with only a narrow part of it."


Roger Griffin, who is considered one of the leading names in the academic world on the socio-historical and ideological structure of fascism, presents a comprehensive breakdown of fascism from Europe to Asia, from Japan to Latin America, with detailed examples, in The Nature of Fascism. However, by focusing on the ideological essence of fascism instead of just creating a mass of historical information, it conducts a detailed discussion on how it creates a new desire for engagement in existing political orders and how it bases its claim to satisfy this desire. Although each of them has various uniquenesses within itself, it focuses on the commonalities between the propaganda, language and political existence of fascist movements. In all these analyses, he repeatedly underlines that the theme of "purifying national revival (palingenesis)" has an effective and comprehensive importance. Instead of producing a cliché counter-propaganda language, it determines the points where previous analyzes of fascism are right and where they are wrong, and makes determinations about what should be taken into consideration in the analysis of fascism. Griffin invites his readers to be alert against fascism, which is treated as if it belongs to the prehistory of the world we live in...
(From the Promotional Bulletin)



Number of Pages: 396

Year of Printing: 2014


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Iletisim Publishing

Number of Pages: 396

First Printing Year: 2014

Language Turkish