The historic imaginary Fogu, Claudio
The historic imaginary,
c2003, 20031002, 2003, 2014, 2003-01-01, 20030101
eBook
Focusing on both ritual and mass-visual representations of history in 1920s and 1930s Italy,The Historic Imaginaryunveils how Italian Fascism sought to institutionalize a modernist culture of ...history. The study takes a new historicist and microhistorical approach to cultural-intellectual history, integrating theoretical tools of analysis acquired from visual-cultural studies, art history, linguistics, and reception theory in a sophisticated examination of visual modes of historical representation - from commemorations to monuments to exhibitions and mass-media - spanning the entire period of the Italian-fascist regime.
Claudio Fogu argues that the fascist historic imaginary was intellectually rooted in the actualist philosophy of history elaborated by Giovanni Gentile, culturally grounded in Latin-Catholic rhetorical codes, and aimed at overcoming both Marxist and liberal conceptions of the relationship between historical agency, representation, and consciousness. The book further proposes that this modernist vision of history was a core element of fascist ideology, encapsulated by the famous Mussolinian motto that "fascism makes history rather than writing it," and that its institutionalization constituted a key point of intersection between the fascist aesthetization and sacralization of politics. The author finally claims that his study of fascist historic culture opens the way to an understanding and re-evaluation of the historical relationship between the modernist critique of historical consciousness and the rise of post-modernist forms of temporality.
Photography and fascism in interwar Europe developed into a highly toxic and combustible formula. Particularly in concert with aggressive display techniques, the European fascists were utterly ...convinced of their ability to use the medium of photography to manufacture consent among their publics. Unfortunately, as we know in hindsight, they succeeded. Other dictatorial regimes in the 1930s harnessed this powerful combination of photography and exhibitions for their own odious purposes. But this book, for the first time, focuses on the particularly consequential dialectic between Germany and Italy in the early-to-mid 1930s, and within each of those countries vis-à-vis display culture. The 1930s provides a potent case study for every generation, and it is as urgent as ever in our global political environment to deeply understand the central role of visual imagery in what transpired. Photofascism demonstrates precisely how dictatorial regimes use photographic mass media, methodically and in combination with display, to persuade the public with often times highly destructive-even catastrophic-results.
Fascists presents a theory of fascism based on intensive analysis of the men and women who became fascists. It covers the six European countries in which fascism became most dominant - Italy, ...Germany, Austria, Hungary, Romania and Spain. It is a comprehensive analysis of who fascists actually were, what beliefs they held and what actions they committed. The book suggests that fascism was essentially a product of post World War I conditions in Europe and is unlikely to re-appear in its classic garb in the future. Nonetheless, elements of its ideology remain relevant to modern conditions and are now re-appearing, though mainly in different parts of the world.
Esta investigación estudia la influencia que las ideas incorporadas por el monarquismo autoritario en la doctrina de la Hispanidad tuvieron en la configuración del pensamiento del fascismo español en ...el contexto de la Segunda República. La Hispanidad como interpretación neotradicionalista de la historia y proyecto político antiliberal fue recogida en su práctica totalidad por los nacientes grupos cercanos al fascismo, que de esta forma sirvió como enlace ideológico con una derecha radical de la que, no obstante, les separaban diferencias fundamentales. En este estudio hemos señalado las dos principales discordancias entre el concepto de Hispanidad del neotradicionalismo, representado en gran medida por el grupo contrarrevolucionario de Acción Española, y los diversos movimientos representantes del fascismo español: el elemento católico como esencia indisociable del ser de España y las aspiraciones imperiales. Para desarrollar esta idea y demostrarla nos hemos servido de un conjunto de fuentes entre las que destacan las obras ensayísticas y publicaciones periódicas de la época en las que estas concepciones fueron formuladas y difundidas.
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Polis (Bucharest, Romania),
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Analiza fenomenului fascismului și a ideologiei care l-a animat nu este (și nu ar trebui să fie) doar un demers academic. Mai întâi, pentru că regimurile fasciste au fost, prin natura lor, ...propagatoare de ură și violență, energii care, în cele din urmă, au stimulat cea mai mare conflagrație a secolului XX, în urma căreia și-au pierdut viața zeci de milioane de oameni.
Although contemporary legal historiography still struggles to talk about a constitution in reference to the fascist regime, the thesis of this essay is that a fascist constitution really existed. And ...not only because Mussolini's regime undermined the Statuto Albertino with repeated legislative reforms, but above all because the constitutional solutions adopted by fascism--even if antidemocratic and therefore aberrant--answered to questions that belonged to the juridical debate of the early twentieth century in Europe; respect to which they were not negation, but a sad possible declination. The centrality of the political direction, the prescriptive content of the constitution, the question of its rigidity and the unsolved struggle for primacy between State and constitution, were all issues that questioned the entire European constitutional doctrine after WWI. And even the need to redefine a new balance between individual rights and collective interest must be considered a characteristic topos of that debate. The essay's conclusions therefore lead to a renewed interpretation of the doctrines of the twentieth-century constitution, based on the marked differences between the elaboration carried out between the two world wars and the one produced, instead, in the second part of the century.
Roberta Pergher transforms our understanding of Fascist rule. Examining Fascist Italy's efforts to control the antipodes of its realm - the regions annexed in northern Italy after the First World ...War, and Italy's North African colonies - she shows how the regime struggled to imagine and implement Italian sovereignty over alien territories and peoples. Contrary to the claims of existing scholarship, Fascist settlement policy in these regions was not designed to solve an overpopulation problem, but to bolster Italian claims to rule in an era that prized self-determination and no longer saw imperial claims as self-evident. Professor Pergher explores the character and impact of Fascist settlement policy and the degree to which ordinary Italians participated in and challenged the regime's efforts to Italianize contested territory. Employing models and concepts from the historiography of empire, she shows how Fascist Italy rethought the boundaries between national and imperial rule.
