The struggle for modernity : nationalism, futurism, and fascism
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The struggle for modernity : nationalism, futurism, and fascism
(Italian and Italian American studies)
Praeger, 2003
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
During the 20th century, Italy experienced some regrettable political developments. It was the first European nation after World War I in which a mass militia-party of revolutionary nationalism achieved power and abolished parliamentary democracy with the goal of building a totalitarian state. It was also the first in Europe to institutionalize the sacralization of politics and to celebrate officially the cult of the leader as a demi-God. These achievements were not accidents. Since the beginning of the 20th century, Italian nationalist movements, from the national radicalism of La Voce to futurist nationalism and fascism, fostered one of the strongest waves of European right-wing radicalism.
The confrontation between nationalism and modernity is one of the main keys to understanding to the permutations of Italian radical nationalism from modernist avant-gardes up to the fascist regime. This book analyzes the ideological undercurrents and cultural myths that unite all these movements. Looking at Italian nationalism from its risorgimento roots to the neo-fascist heritage, Gentile considers the relationship between myth and organization in the making of the fascist state, the role of the party, the liturgy of mass politics in Italy, the fascist organizations abroad, and the attitude of fascist culture toward the United States.
Table of Contents
Series Editor Foreword
Foreword
Introduction: Italian Nationalism and Modernity
Modernist Nationalism
The "New Man" and the "New State": The Sacralization of Politics and Myth of National Regeneration
The Struggle for Modernity: Echoes of the Dreyfus Affair in Italian Political Culture, 1898-1912
Conflicting Modernisms: La Voce Against Futurism
The Conquest of Modernity: From Modernist Nationalism to Fascism
Fascist to Totalitarianism
Fascism and the Italian Road to Totalitarianism
Myth and Organization: The Rationale of Fascist Mass Politics
The Great Pedagogue: The Role of the Fascist Party in the Totalitarian Experiment
The Italian Fasces Abroad: The "Foreign Policy" of the Fascist Party
Mussolini's Charisma
The Theatre of Politics in Fascist Italy
Impending Modernity: Fascism and the Ambivalent Image of the United States
Conclusion: The End of a Myth
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