Leseprobe
* Affiliatelinks/Werbelinks
Links auf reinlesen.de sind sogenannte Affiliate-Links. Wenn du auf so einen Affiliate-Link klickst und über diesen Link einkaufst, bekommt reinlesen.de von dem betreffenden Online-Shop oder Anbieter eine Provision. Für dich verändert sich der Preis nicht.
French Literary Fascism
David Carroll
* Affiliatelinks/Werbelinks
Links auf reinlesen.de sind sogenannte Affiliate-Links. Wenn du auf so einen Affiliate-Link klickst und über diesen Link einkaufst, bekommt reinlesen.de von dem betreffenden Online-Shop oder Anbieter eine Provision. Für dich verändert sich der Preis nicht.
Belletristik / Essays, Feuilleton, Literaturkritik, Interviews
Beschreibung
This is the first book to provide a sustained critical analysis of the literary-aesthetic dimension of French fascism--the peculiarly French form of what Walter Benjamin called the fascist "aestheticizing of politics." Focusing first on three important extremist nationalist writers at the turn of the century and then on five of the most visible fascist intellectuals in France in the 1930s, David Carroll shows how both traditional and modern concepts of art figure in the elaboration of fascist ideology--and in the presentation of fascism as an art of the political.
Carroll is concerned with the internal relations of fascism and literature--how literary fascists conceived of politics as a technique for fashioning a unified people and transforming the disparate elements of society into an organic, totalized work of art. He explores the logic of such aestheticizing, as well as the assumptions about art, literature, and culture at the basis of both the aesthetics and politics of French literary fascists. His book reveals how not only classical humanism but also modern aesthetics that defend the autonomy and integrity of literature became models for xenophobic forms of nationalism and extreme "cultural" forms of anti-Semitism. A cogent analysis of the ideological function of literature and culture in fascism, this work helps us see the ramifications of thinking of literature or art as the truth or essence of politics.
Kundenbewertungen
Criticism, Je suis partout, Masculinity, Adolf Hitler, French literature, Paul de Man, Surrealism, Political spectrum, Journalism, Nazism, Newspaper, French poetry, Literature, Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, Lucien Rebatet, Writing, Philosophy, Pamphlet, Charles Maurras, Article (grammar), Politique, Pretext, Aesthetics, Nazi Party, New European Order, La France juive, Poetry, Racism, Jewish question, Philosopher, Romanticism, Robert Brasillach, Determination, Superiority (short story), Integral nationalism, Demagogue, Classicism, Modernity, Western culture, Ideology, Jean-Paul Sartre, Aestheticization of politics, Politics, Anschluss, Antihumanism, Jews, Spirituality, V., World War I, Exclusion, Nazi Germany, Victor Hugo, Modernism, Germanophile, Marxism, French nationalism, Aestheticism, National identity, Martin Heidegger, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, Communism, German nationalism, Italian Fascism, Fascism in Europe, Zeev Sternhell, Extremism, Dictatorship, French people, Totalitarianism, Vichy France