Oct 31, 2009

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Avant-Garde Fascism

Avant-Garde Fascism: The Mobilization of Myth, Art, and Culture in France, 1909–1939Mark AntliffDurham and London: Duke University Press,  2007Mark Antliff, a professor of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke University, has put together a useful analysis of the cultural-aesthetic memes utilized by French fascists of 1909-1939 to promote their visions of national...

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Sep 10, 2009

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Another European Destiny, Part II

Editor’s Note: For the first part of this review essay on Dominique Venner’ s Ernst Jünger: Un autre destin européen (Paris: Éds. du Rocher, 2009), click here.4. Der ArbeiterJünger’s nationalist politics turned out to be a passing phase in his long life.  By 1930, after the wind started to go from the revolutionary-nationalist sails and the National...

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Sep 9, 2009

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The New Relevance of Oswald Spengler

Prophet of Decline:Spengler on World History and Politics John FarrenkopfBaton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001With the victory of the democracies and their communist allies over fascist Europe in 1945, Oswald Spengler’s view of history quickly fell into obscurity.  Though it once enjoyed intellectual respectability and even popularity throughout the Western...

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