Modernism and fascism : the sense of a beginning under Mussolini and Hitler / Roger Griffin

"It has been widely assumed that fascism was anti-modern, the sworn enemy of genuine culture: thus the Third Reich barbarically destroyed modernism, while fascism cynically harnessed the creativity of the artistic avant-garde and technocratic elite to reactionary ends. In contrast, Roger Griffi...

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Main Authors:Griffin, Roger (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published:Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
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Paradoxes of "fascist modernism"
Two modes of modernism
Archaeology of modernism
Primordialist definition of modernism
Social modernism in peace and war 1880-1918
Rise of political modernism 1848-1945
Birth of fascism from modernism
Fascist regime as a modernist state
Nazism as a revitalization movement
Modernism of Nazi culture
Third Reich's biopolitical modernism
Casting off.