French Literary Fascism: Nationalism, Anti-Semitism, and the Ideology of Culture
by:
David Carroll (author)
David Carroll,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by Princeton University Press
David Carroll,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by Princeton University Press
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780691058467 (0691058466)
Publish date: July 21st 1998
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Pages no: 310
Edition language: English
Carroll argues that French fascism's foundations were laid before the Great War by nationalist writers who denounced the politics of the Third Republic and called for an “aestheticization” of politics. French fascism is therefore of internal origin and not due to Italian or German influence. He view...
Carroll argues for internal origins, not Italian or German influence. He views fascism as growing from fin-de-siecle nationalism. In France, fascism was primarily literary and was characterized by an anti-semitism that was aesthetic and cultural rather than racial or biological, belief in a unified ...