The Sacralization of Politics in Fascist Italy |
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Author:
| Gentile, Emilio |
Translator:
| Botsford, Keith |
ISBN: | 978-0-674-78475-8 |
Publication Date: | Sep 1996 |
Publisher: | Harvard University Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | AUD $122.95 |
Book Description:
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Fascism was the first and prime instance of a modern political religion. Rereading signs, symbols, cults, and myths, Italy's leading scholar of Fascism offers a new history of Italian nationalism as a civic religion, albeit in its extreme form, and of Italian Fascism as a vital catalyst for contemporary mass politics.
Fascism was the first and prime instance of a modern political religion. Rereading signs, symbols, cults, and myths, Italy's leading scholar of Fascism offers a new history of Italian nationalism as a civic religion, albeit in its extreme form, and of Italian Fascism as a vital catalyst for contemporary mass politics.