The dramatic transformations of the the 1990s - the end of the Cold War, the establishment of political liberties and market economies in Eastern Europe, German unification - quickly led commentators to proclaim the end of all ideologies and the complete triumph of liberal capitalism. Just as quickly, however, right-wing extremism began a surge in Europe that has not significantly abated to this day. Fascism and Neofascism is a collection of essays that is distinctive in two important ways. First, unlike most volumes, which cover either historical fascism or the recent radical right, Fascism and Neofascism spans both periods. Secondly, this volume also aims to bring newer modes of inquiry, rooted in cultural studies, into dialogue with more 'traditional' ways of viewing fascism. The editors' approach is deliberately interdisciplinary, even eclectic.

'...Fascism and Neofascism is composed of sensible, comprehensible essays that have interesting things to say about a tortured subject.' - A. James Gregor, Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions

Autorentext
ERIC D. WEITZ is Professor of History at the University of Minnesota, USA. He is also the co-editor of the series in which this book appears.

ANGELICA FENNER is a Lecturer in the French and Italian Department at the University of Minnesota, USA.

Inhalt
Introduction; A.Fenner & E.D.Weitz Ideological Positions in the the Fascism Debate; A.Hewitt Nazi Politics and the Cult of Stardom; L.Koepnick Fascismo-Stile: Masculinity and the Post-Historic Imaginary; C.Fogu The Danish Right, 1930-1945, and Recruitment of Danish Volunteers for the Waffen SS; C.B.Christensen , N.B.Poulsen , & P.Scharff Smith Sexuality and Secularization in Nazi Germany; D.Herzog The Fascist Phantom and Anti-Immigrant Violence: The Power of False Equation; D.Prowe Fascism, Colonialism, and 'Race': The Reality of a Fiction; D.Carroll Fascism and the New Radical Movement in Romania; M.Bucur The Right Wing Network and the Role of Extremist Youth Groupings in Unified Germany; J.Kersten Football, Hooligans, and War in Ex-Yugoslavia; I.Colovic The 'Invaders', the 'Traitors', and the Resistance Movement: Reconceptualizing Self and Adversary in the Scandinavian Extreme Right; T.Bjorgo Racism, the Extreme Right and Ideology in Contemporary France: Continuum or Innovation?; M.Wieviorka Immigration, Insecurity, and the French Far Right; F.H.Adler From Communism to Nazism to Vichy: Le Livre Noir du Communisme and the Wages of Comparison; R.J.Golsan RepetitionTrauma and the Tyrannies of Genre: Freidrich Schlaich's Otomo; A.Fenner