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new perspectives

edited by Constantin Iordachi

Routledge

xii, 367 p.

Rewriting histories

pt. I. Defining generic fascism : a new consensus?. Fascism / Zeev Sternhell -- Toward a general theory of fascism / George L Mosse -- Fascism : a working definition / Stanley G. Payne -- Fascism : general introduction / Roger Griffin -- The primacy of culture : the current growth (or manufacture) of consensus within fascist studies / Roger Griffin -- The nature of ʹgeneric fascismʹ : the ʹfascist minimumʹ and the ʹfascist matrixʹ / Roger Eatwell -- pt. II. Historical fascism : cross-national comparisons. The five stages of fascism / Robert O. Paxton -- Fascists / Michael Mann -- The ʹregime-modelʹ of fascism : a typology / Aristotle A. Kallis -- Hitler and the uniqueness of Nazism / Ian Kershaw -- pt. III. Fascism as totalitarianism and political religion. The sacralisation of politics : definitions, interpretations, and reflections on the question of secular religion and totalitarianism / Emilio Gentile -- Cloister or cluster? The implications of Emilio Gentileʹs ecumenical theory of political religion for the study of extremism / Roger Griffin -- Nazism and the revival of political religion theory / Richard Steigmann-Gall -- Godʹs chosen warriors : romantic palingenesis, militarism and fascism in modern Romania / Constantin Iordachi.

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726.5

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9780415462228 ,

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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