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The Nature of Fascism

The Nature of Fascism
By Roger Griffin

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Roger Griffin offers a radically new conceptual framework for the study of fascism by locating its driving force in a distinctive form of utopian myth, that of the regenerated national community destined to rise up from the ashes of a decadent society ("palingenetic ultra-nationalism").

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #2024687 in Books
  • Published on: 1991-09-15
  • Original language: English
  • Dimensions: 1.06 pounds
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 256 pages

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This is an excellent book. Ambitious in scope, though the author is commendably modest in his pretensions, it sets out to provide a new definition of fascism as a generic term. . . . the arguments are invariably stimulating, the insights perceptive. Griffin has an enviable grasp of the literature and discusses all the major issues of fascist historiography in the light of his own theory. Last but not least, he writes with admirable lucidity and lightness of touch. His book succeeds in its aim of being of use to the specialist and student/general reader alike.
–Jeremy Noakes, Political Studies

. . . the most broad-ranging, internally consistent and suggestive general book on the subject that has so far been published.
–Ian Thurlow, University of Sheffield

Ian Thurlow, University of Sheffield
". . . the most broad-ranging, internally consistent and suggestive general book on the subject that has so far been published."

About the Author

Roger Griffin is Professor in Modern History at Oxford Brookes University, UK. His major work is "The Nature of Fascism" (1991), which established the first new theory of generic fascism for over a decade. It is a theory that continues to have a major influence on the teaching and development of fascist studies by political scientists and historians alike. This is his first authored book since that 1991 breakthrough. He has also edited "Fascism," a documentary reader of primary sources relating to fascism published by OUP (1995), "International Fascism. Theories, Causes, and the New Consensus," a documentary reader of secondary sources published by Arnold in 1998, and the five volumes of secondary sources relating to fascism in Routledge's "Critical Concepts in Political Science" series (1993).