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Erstmals wird die zentrale Rolle der katholisch-faschistischen Intellektuellengruppe um den Germanisten Guido Manacorda (1879-1965) beleuchtet, die diese dank großer Nähe zu Mussolini im Regime in Bildung, Propaganda und Wissenschaft spielte. Diplomatiegeschichtlich kommt Manacorda 1935/37 das zweifelhafte Verdienst zu, als Vermittler des „Duce" in mehreren Audienzen bei Hitler die Annäherung Italiens an das „Dritte Reich" vorbereitet zu haben. This book examines the central role played by a group of Catholic fascist intellectuals around Germanist Guido Manacordas (1879–1965). Thanks to their closeness to Mussolini, they had a major influence on the domains of education, propaganda, and science. Manacorda has the dubious historical credit of serving as the "Duce’s" spokesman at multiple audiences with Hitler from 1935 to 1937, paving the way to Italy’s alliance with the Third Reich.

Fascism and the Catholic Church. --- Hitler, Adolf, --- Mussolini, Benito, --- Germany --- Italy --- History --- Catholicism. --- Guido Manacorda. --- Italian fascism. --- elite research.

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'Baroquemania' offers a new account of Italian post-unification visual culture through its entanglement with the Baroque. Interrogating the Baroque's fraught afterlife in the work of Giorgio de Chirico, Armando Brasini, Lucio Fontana and others, the book reveals its role in crafting a distinctively Italian approach to modern art.

Art and society --- Art, Baroque --- Architecture, Baroque --- Baroque literature --- Art, Modern --- History --- History and criticism. --- Baroque revival. --- Futurism. --- Gabriele d'Annunzio. --- Giorgio de Chirico. --- Italian fascism. --- Lucio Fontana. --- Roberto Longhi. --- modernism. --- return-to-order. --- universal exhibitions.

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The European Axis policy remains largely unwritten. Little is known about the factors that united or divided the Fascist regime and the Nazi Reich regarding the post-war order. Furthermore, even less is known about the Italian plans for a fascist Europe, which wartime events soon relegated to the margins of Axis policy. This book reconstructs the debate on the new European order developed from the 1930s to the spring of 1943 by Fascist politicians, philosophers, writers, anthropologists, and geographers. The debate progressed alongside the evolution of the international framework and in parallel with the war. The diachronic examination of these projects, where distinctive elements of Fascist ideology were instrumentally entwined with Latin and Catholic tradition, allows us to recover the thread of relations between Italy and Germany and between Italy and the minor allies of the Axis. The very choice of words - Fascist Europe, Axis Europe, Catholic Europe or Europe of Nations - reflects a shift in the balance of power: from collaboration to competition, from fear to an attempt to regain prominence. In 1943, the idea of a Europe of nations with an explicitly anti-German intent was the final, unrealistic assertion toward a new order where Axis Europe was not just Nazi Europe.

Fascism & Nazism --- Second World War --- 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 --- new european order, Italian Fascism, The Axis, the thirties, the crisis of Europe, fascist europe, second world war, Third Reich, debate on the new Europe, new economic order, eurafrica, eurafrasia

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"Building on extensive archival research and important scholarly analysis, Galeazzo Ciano: The Fascist Pretender examines the life of Galeazzo Ciano, foreign minister of fascist Italy from 1936 to 1943 and Benito Mussolini's son-in-law. Ciano's life serves as the lens through which we gain a better understanding of crucial issues of Italian and European fascism, including the fascistization of society and politics, foreign relations, and the problem of succession. In order to accomplish this, the biography follows an innovative thematic structure that focuses on major aspects of Ciano's life, including his family, his political career, his diplomacy, and his desire to succeed Mussolini. Filling a substantial gap in the existing literature on the history of fascism, this is the first comprehensive analysis of a key player of Italian fascism other than Mussolini; it also offers a long overdue critical assessment of Ciano's famous diary, one of the most important texts from the period. Using visual materials such as photographs and films as sources and not just as illustrative material, Tobias Hof allows us to rethink our understanding of fascism and offers a new perspective on the history of fascist Italy."--

Diplomats --- Fascism --- Fascists --- Foreign ministers --- History --- Ciano, Galeazzo, --- Ciano, Galeazzo, --- Italy. --- Italie --- Italy --- Histoire --- History --- Benito Mussolini. --- Galeazzo Ciano. --- Galeazzo Ciano’s diaries. --- Italian fascism. --- Second World War. --- WWII. --- World War Two. --- biography. --- fascist oligarchy. --- international relations. --- twentieth-century Italian history.

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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.

Antisemitism in literature. --- Antisemitism --- Fascism and literature --- French literature --- Nationalism and literature --- History --- History and criticism. --- France --- Politics and government --- Antisemitism in literature --- Antisemitisme in de literatuur --- Antisémitisme dans la littérature --- Thematology --- anno 1900-1999 --- 20th century --- History and criticism --- Fascism and literature - France - History - 20th century. --- Nationalism and literature - France - History - 20th century. --- Action Française (the movement). --- Anderson, Benedict. --- Apollonian. --- Blanchot, Maurice. --- Butler, Judith. --- Corneille, Pierre. --- Drumont, Edouard. --- Etiemble. --- Finkielkraut, Alain. --- French Revolution. --- Freud, Sigmund. --- Godard, André. --- Hamacher, Werner. --- Heidegger, Martin. --- Hollier, Denis. --- Isorni, Jacques. --- Italian fascism. --- Jaurès, Jean. --- Kafka, Franz. --- Krieger, Murray. --- Lautréamont. --- Lévy, Bernard-Henri. --- Mounier, Emmanuel. --- Muray, Philippe. --- Napoleon. --- Nazism. --- Pauvert, Jean-Jacques. --- Plato. --- Steiner, George. --- aestheticizing of politics. --- apocalyptic political vision. --- barbarian. --- decadence. --- decadent art. --- deracination. --- force. --- gender. --- historicism. --- humanism. --- imagined community. --- irrationalism. --- masochism. --- mysticism. --- national identity. --- nihilism. --- organicism. --- pleasure principle. --- race. --- republicanism. --- revisionism. --- socialism. --- surrealism.