Finchelstein Fascist Mythologies

The History and Politics of Unreason in Borges, Freud, and Schmitt
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-231-54479-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 79

Reihe: New Directions in Critical Theory

Federico Finchelstein draws on a striking combination of thinkers—Jorge Luis Borges, Sigmund Freud, and Carl Schmitt—to consider fascism as a form of political mythmaking. At a moment when forces redolent of fascism cast a shadow over world affairs, this book provides a timely critical analysis of the dangers of myth in modern politics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Finchelstein, Federico

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Totalitarismus & Diktaturen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Introduction
1. Freud, Fascism, and the Return of the Myth
2. Borges and Fascism as Mythology
3. Borges and the Persistence of Myth
4. A Fascist History: Carl Schmitt’s Political Theory of Myth
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Federico Finchelstein is professor of history at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College. His books include A Brief History of Fascist Lies (2020), From Fascism to Populism in History (2017), The Ideological Origins of the Dirty War: Fascism, Populism, and Dictatorship in Twentieth-Century Argentina (2014), and Transatlantic Fascism: Ideology, Violence, and the Sacred in Argentina and Italy, 1919–1945 (2010).