Genocide and Fascism

This book investigates how fascism -- as an ideology and political praxis -- reconfigured the ideological, political, and moral landscape of interwar Europe, generating an atmosphere of extreme 'license' that facilitated the leap into eliminationist violence.

Informationen zum Autor Aristotle Kallis is Senior Lecturer in European Studies at Lancaster University. His publications include National Socialist Propaganda and the Second World War (2005) and The Fascism Reader (2003), as well as articles and essays on the history of fascism, genocide, and propaganda. Klappentext This book investigates how fascism -- as an ideology and political praxis -- reconfigured the ideological, political, and moral landscape of interwar Europe, generating an atmosphere of extreme 'license' that facilitated the leap into eliminationist violence. Zusammenfassung This book investigates how fascism -- as an ideology and political praxis -- reconfigured the ideological, political, and moral landscape of interwar Europe, generating an atmosphere of extreme 'license' that facilitated the leap into eliminationist violence. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: Main Concepts: Fascism, Nation-statism, Eliminationism and 'Fascist Agency' Part A The Overlapping Circles of Nationalism and Race: Constructing 'Other-ness' and Rehearsing Elimination Chapter 1 - Identity and 'Other-Ness': From Nationalism to the Elimination of 'Others' Chapter 2 'Race', 'Nation' and the 'Internal Enemy' Part B 'Rebirth' and 'Cleansing': Fascist Ideology and the 'Licence to Hate' Chapter 3 - The Fascist Synthesis: 'Rebirth', 'Cleansing' and the 'Ideal Nation-State' Chapter 4 - Imagining Elimination: Fascist Ideologies, the Construction of the 'Other' and the 'Licence to Hate' Part C National Socialism: The 'Uniqueness' of Synthesis and Implementation Chapter 5 - The 'Unique' German Case: Long-Term Trends and NS Agency Chapter 6 - The Radicalisation of the NS Project of Elimination and the 'Licence to Kill' Part D Genocide, Agency, and 'License' in the NS 'New Order' (1939-45) Chapter 7 - National Eliminationist Projects and the Emergence of The NS 'Agentic Order' Chapter 8 - The Fascist State as 'Agent': Collaborationism and Genocide Chapter 9 - Fascist Disciples as 'Agents': The 'Fifth Column' of the NS New Order Chapter 10 - 'Licence to Kill' and 'Ordinary People': The 'Carnival' of Eliminationist Violence Conclusions Notes Bibliography Index ...

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Aristotle Kallis is Senior Lecturer in European Studies at Lancaster University. His publications include National Socialist Propaganda and the Second World War (2005) and The Fascism Reader (2003), as well as articles and essays on the history of fascism, genocide, and propaganda.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Main Concepts: Fascism, Nation-statism, Eliminationism and 'Fascist Agency'

Part A The Overlapping Circles of Nationalism and Race: Constructing 'Other-ness' and Rehearsing Elimination

Chapter 1 - Identity and 'Other-Ness': From Nationalism to the Elimination of 'Others'

Chapter 2 'Race', 'Nation' and the 'Internal Enemy'

Part B 'Rebirth' and 'Cleansing': Fascist Ideology and the 'Licence to Hate'

Chapter 3 - The Fascist Synthesis: 'Rebirth', 'Cleansing' and the 'Ideal Nation-State'

Chapter 4 - Imagining Elimination: Fascist Ideologies, the Construction of the 'Other' and the 'Licence to Hate'

Part C National Socialism: The 'Uniqueness' of Synthesis and Implementation

Chapter 5 - The 'Unique' German Case: Long-Term Trends and NS Agency

Chapter 6 - The Radicalisation of the NS Project of Elimination and the 'Licence to Kill'

Part D Genocide, Agency, and 'License' in the NS 'New Order' (1939-45)

Chapter 7 - National Eliminationist Projects and the Emergence of The NS 'Agentic Order'

Chapter 8 - The Fascist State as 'Agent': Collaborationism and Genocide

Chapter 9 - Fascist Disciples as 'Agents': The 'Fifth Column' of the NS New Order

Chapter 10 - 'Licence to Kill' and 'Ordinary People': The 'Carnival' of Eliminationist Violence

Conclusions

Notes

Bibliography

Index