R Griffin
Biographic Data
| ID | 4825 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Griffin |
| GIVEN NAMES | R |
| FAMILY NAME | Griffin |
| SIGNATURE | GRIFFIN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oxford Brookes University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6626-2818 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 60 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 207 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 60 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Three Reflections on New Directions in Comparative Fascism Studies
In this article, three leading scholars of comparative fascism studies offer their thoughts and reflections on the state of the field. It seeks to stimulate debate and reflection on how to study fascism in the years to come and addresses a number of challenges facing this area of study. Aristotle Kallis focuses on the need to recognise the value of ‘associational’ perspectives, to highlight how fascism historically drew together a constellation o…
Ghostbusting Fascism
This article seeks to exorcise some of fascism’s more haunting taxonomic horrors by focusing on the multiple ‘phantasmagorical’ aspects of comparative fascist studies which thwart attempts to achieve definitive resolutions of such nebulous and contested issues as its relationship to the radical right. It first considers the lasting traumatic effect on collective memories resulting from the catastrophic scale of inhumanity and casualties generated…
Mussolini Predicted a Fascist Century
In the entry on ‘Fascism’ published in 1932 in the Enciclopedia Italiana , Benito Mussolini made a prediction. There were, he claimed, good reasons to think that the twentieth century would be a century of ‘authority’, the ‘right’: a fascist century ( un secolo fascista ). However, after 1945 the many attempts by fascists to perpetuate the dreams of the 1930s have come to naught. Whatever impact they have had at a local level, and however profoun…
Fascist Pigs. Technoscientific Organisms and the History of Fascism
Long gone are the days when Norberto Bobbio could claim that ‘Fascism had no culture’ and Stuart Woolf could suggest that ‘Perhaps the world fascism should be banned, at least temporarily, from our
Building the Visible Immortality of the Nation
This article sets out to contribute conceptual clarity to the growing recognition of the modern and futural dynamic behind fascist cultural projects by focusing on projects for architectural renewal under the Third Reich. It starts by reviewing the gradual recognition of the futural temporality of the regime’s culture. It then introduces the concept ‘rooted modernism’ and argues for its application not only to the vernacular idioms of some of the…
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David Roberts, Fascist Interactions
Fascism’s Modernist Revolution
This article highlights the progress that has been made within fascist studies from seeing ‘fascist culture’ as an oxymoron, and assuming that it was driven by a profound animus against modernity and aesthetic modernism, to wide acceptance that it had its own revolutionary dynamic as a search for a Third Way between liberalism and communism, and bid to establish an alternative, rooted modern culture. Building logically on this growing consensus, …
Decentering Comparative Fascist Studies
This article challenges a tendency that grew up in fascist studies in the 1930s to treat Fascism and Nazism as the only authentic expressions of fascism, and to evaluate and understand all other manifestations of the generic force as more or less derivative of them and hence of secondary importance when understanding ‘the nature of fascism’ as an ideology. This has created an artificial location of each fascism as being either at the core or peri…
Fixing Solutions
Fixing Solutions: Fascist Temporalities as Remedies for Liquid Modernity This article explores the peculiar temporalities of fascism that emanate from the myth of the eternity of the nation and race that is perpetuated through superhuman, self-sacrificial efforts on their behalf within historical time. It focuses on the role played by modernity as an agent of the «liquefaction» of reality into a perpetual open-ended flux (experienced as decadence…
Bio-nomic Man (and Woman)
The Nature of Fascism
The Nature of Fascism draws on the history of ideas as well as on political, social and psychological theory to produce a synthesis of ideas and approaches that will be invaluable for students. Roger Griffin locates the driving force of fascism in a distinctive form of utopian myth, that of the regenerated national community, destined to rise up from the ashes of a decadent society. He lays bare the structural affinity that relates fascism not on…
A New Editor-in-Chief and the Special Issue on Transnational Fascism
What fascism is not and is. Thoughts on the re-inflation of a concept
This new section of the journal is polemical in intent and sets out to stimulate debate. For submission of your contributions (max. 800 words) please visit the website (brill.com/fascism). The journal’s consultant editor Roger Griffin sets the ball rolling
Terrorist's Creed
Terrorist's Creed casts a penetrating beam of empathetic understanding into the disturbing and murky psychological world of fanatical violence, explaining how the fanaticism it demands stems from the
Introduction to M.S. Quine’s ‘Racial “Sterility” and “Hyperfecundity” in Fascist Italy’
For decades after the Second World War it was the received wisdom of historians that Nazism was biologically racist and dominated by eugenic thinking while Fascism rejected biologism in its conceptualization of the nation and nationalist revolution. So deeply engrained was this assumption that when both Zeev Sternhell and James Gregor refused to accept Nazism as a member of the ‘family of fascism’ on account of its biological racism they caused l…
Studying Fascism in a Postfascist Age. From New Consensus to New Wave? 1
The article suggests a way of mapping the remit for Fascism: Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies by considering how far a “new consensus” has formed between specialists working in this area which conceptualizes fascism as a revolutionary form of ultra-nationalism that attempts to realize the myth of the regenerated nation. It is a myth which applied in practice creates a totalitarian movement or regime engaged in combating cultural, ethnic and…
Football in no-man’s-land? The prospects for a fruitful ‘inter-camp’ dialogue within fascist studies
Overtures of reconciliation in a forgotten conflict
The Legitimizing Role of Palingenetic Myth in Ideocracies
Noch immer ist das Konzept des Totalitarismus stark mit der auf absolute Kontrolle der Gesellschaft abzielenden Zentralisierung von allumfassender Macht verbunden. Dieser Aufsatz beschäftigt sich mit einem Konzept des Totalitarismus, das zwar bereits ansatzweise von Friedrich und Brzezinski aufgegriffen, aber erst in den letzten zehn Jahren zunehmend bekannter wurde. Totalitarismus wird dabei als ein Experiment der Sozialkonstruktion verstanden. …
Rethinking the Nature of Fascism
Many of the foremost experts in the study of European fascism unite to provide a contemporary analysis of the theories and historiography of fascism. Essays discuss the most recent debates on the subj
Uniqueness and Family Resemblances in Generic Fascism
The Oxford Handbook of Fascism
A Fascist Century
Ten essays on the nature of fascism by a leading scholar in the field, focusing on how to understand and apply fascist ideology to various movements since the twentieth century, Mussolini's prophesied
"Modernity, modernism, and fascism. A "mazeway resynthesis
Modernity, modernism, and fascism. A “mazeway resynthesis” Roger Griffin (bio) Fascism and modernism: finding the "big picture" Researchers combing through back numbers of this journal in search of authoritative guidance to the relationship between modernity, modernism, and fascism could be forgiven for occasionally losing their bearings. In one of the earliest issues they will alight upon Emilio Gentile's article tracing the paternity of early F…
Interregnum or endgame? The radical right in the ‘post-fascist’ era
This article focuses on the two most significant forms taken by ideological mutations of the fascist species of radical right in the hostile climate of post-war Europe: internationalization (Eurofascism, Universal Nazism, Third Positionism), and metapoliticization (Revisionism, the New Right, cyberfascism). It goes on to argue that the 'democratic fascism' of some political parties is emblematic of the extreme marginalization of revolutionary nat…
The ‘post‐Fascism’ of the Alleanza Nazionale
This article sets out to resolve the contentious issue of the Alleanza Nazionale's (AN's) relationship to Fascism by focusing on the party's first official programme, the Theses published when it formally replaced the overtly fascist Movimento Sociale Italiano in January 1995. Considered in the light of a particular model both of generic fascism and ideological morphology, these theses document the considerable extent to which the AN's vision of …
From slime mould to rhizome
Conventional academic research into the legacy of inter-war fascism has generally neglected the myriad minuscule and often ephemeral formations of the extreme right that have sprung up since 1945, and has concentrated instead on abortive attempts to emulate the success of the Nazi and Fascist party-based mass movements, and more recently on non-revolutionary 'neo-populist parties'. However, when examined closely, many of these formations can be o…
The Primacy of Culture
Twenty years after the destruction of the Third Reich, the essence of fascism is still elusive.'1 This statement, taken from the very first issue of the Journal of Contemporary History, edited by Walter Laqueur and George Mosse and dedicated to 'International Fascism 1920-1945', epitomizes the state of fascist studies in the mid-1960s when they were hardly out of their methodological diapers. They had at last started to put behind them an infanti…
Between metapolitics and apoliteia
The French Nouvelle Droite (ND) represents something of an enigma for students of the far Right as its political allegiances and tactics seem to yield no clear view of its ideological positioning. Here it is argued that one strand of the contemporary ND draws on elements both of Armin Mohler's Conservative Revolution and of the thought of the Italian writer Julius Evola. The fusion allows ND scholars such as Alain de Benoist to develop a stance o…
Studying Fascism in a Postfascist Age. From New Consensus to New Wave? 1
The article suggests a way of mapping the remit for Fascism: Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies by considering how far a “new consensus” has formed between specialists working in this area which conceptualizes fascism as a revolutionary form of ultra-nationalism that attempts to realize the myth of the regenerated nation. It is a myth which applied in practice creates a totalitarian movement or regime engaged in combating cultural, ethnic and…
Net Gains and GUD Reactions
Using the student organization Groupe d'union et de défense (GUD) as a case-study, Griffin argues that the radical-right groupuscule should not be treated as an embryonic or stunted form of the inter-war 'armed party' epitomized by the Italian Fascist and German Nazi parties. Rather it is to be seen as a genus of extra-parlia-mentary political formation in its own right, perfectly adapted to the inhospitable climate of relatively stable liberal d…
Guest editor's introduction
Ideology and culture
Finding a pragmatic exit from the semantic labyrinth surrounding 'ideology' and 'culture', this article considers the neutral connotations of 'ideology' as a formative, intrinsically paradoxical, constituent of culture, and argues that the heterogeneous, volatile, and contested nature of all ideologies when viewed through some postmodernist lenses is their hallmark only under the historically exceptional societal conditions of high modernity. It …
Ghostbusting Fascism
This article seeks to exorcise some of fascism’s more haunting taxonomic horrors by focusing on the multiple ‘phantasmagorical’ aspects of comparative fascist studies which thwart attempts to achieve definitive resolutions of such nebulous and contested issues as its relationship to the radical right. It first considers the lasting traumatic effect on collective memories resulting from the catastrophic scale of inhumanity and casualties generated…
Fixing Solutions
Fixing Solutions: Fascist Temporalities as Remedies for Liquid Modernity This article explores the peculiar temporalities of fascism that emanate from the myth of the eternity of the nation and race that is perpetuated through superhuman, self-sacrificial efforts on their behalf within historical time. It focuses on the role played by modernity as an agent of the «liquefaction» of reality into a perpetual open-ended flux (experienced as decadence…
Fascism’s Modernist Revolution
This article highlights the progress that has been made within fascist studies from seeing ‘fascist culture’ as an oxymoron, and assuming that it was driven by a profound animus against modernity and aesthetic modernism, to wide acceptance that it had its own revolutionary dynamic as a search for a Third Way between liberalism and communism, and bid to establish an alternative, rooted modern culture. Building logically on this growing consensus, …
The Legitimizing Role of Palingenetic Myth in Ideocracies
Noch immer ist das Konzept des Totalitarismus stark mit der auf absolute Kontrolle der Gesellschaft abzielenden Zentralisierung von allumfassender Macht verbunden. Dieser Aufsatz beschäftigt sich mit einem Konzept des Totalitarismus, das zwar bereits ansatzweise von Friedrich und Brzezinski aufgegriffen, aber erst in den letzten zehn Jahren zunehmend bekannter wurde. Totalitarismus wird dabei als ein Experiment der Sozialkonstruktion verstanden. …
"Modernity, modernism, and fascism. A "mazeway resynthesis
Modernity, modernism, and fascism. A “mazeway resynthesis” Roger Griffin (bio) Fascism and modernism: finding the "big picture" Researchers combing through back numbers of this journal in search of authoritative guidance to the relationship between modernity, modernism, and fascism could be forgiven for occasionally losing their bearings. In one of the earliest issues they will alight upon Emilio Gentile's article tracing the paternity of early F…
Shattering crystals
This article prepares the conceptual ground for a new heuristic approach to understanding acts of political violence that consciously incur the risk of death to their perpetrators. It focuses on the deep-seated human drive to escape the futility and emptiness induced by clock-time (chronos), and the way a sense of being ‘chosen’ for a mission of destruction can precipitate the experience of being reborn in a new supraindividual dimension (‘dream …
The Reclamation of Fascist Culture
Building the Visible Immortality of the Nation
This article sets out to contribute conceptual clarity to the growing recognition of the modern and futural dynamic behind fascist cultural projects by focusing on projects for architectural renewal under the Third Reich. It starts by reviewing the gradual recognition of the futural temporality of the regime’s culture. It then introduces the concept ‘rooted modernism’ and argues for its application not only to the vernacular idioms of some of the…
Decentering Comparative Fascist Studies
This article challenges a tendency that grew up in fascist studies in the 1930s to treat Fascism and Nazism as the only authentic expressions of fascism, and to evaluate and understand all other manifestations of the generic force as more or less derivative of them and hence of secondary importance when understanding ‘the nature of fascism’ as an ideology. This has created an artificial location of each fascism as being either at the core or peri…
What fascism is not and is. Thoughts on the re-inflation of a concept
This new section of the journal is polemical in intent and sets out to stimulate debate. For submission of your contributions (max. 800 words) please visit the website (brill.com/fascism). The journal’s consultant editor Roger Griffin sets the ball rolling
Overtures of reconciliation in a forgotten conflict
European Aristocracies and the Radical Right, 1918-1939
Karina Urbach has diligently applied herself to fashioning a scholarly text worthy of the OUP imprint out of eleven disparate contributions presented to the symposium held by the London outpost of the German Historical Institute on which it is based. Together they constitute a series of finely drawn, nuanced cameo portraits of the tangled relationship between aristocrats and the radical right that emerged in France, Belgium, Holland, Italy, Spain…
Notes towards the definition of fascist culture
(1999). Notes towards the definition of fascist culture: The prospects for synergy between marxist and liberal heuristics. Renaissance and Modern Studies: Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 95-114
Nazi Art
Journal Article Nazi Art: Romantic Twilight or (Post)modernist Dawn? Get access ROGER GRIFFIN ROGER GRIFFIN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Oxford Art Journal, Volume 18, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 103–107, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxartj/18.2.103 Published: 01 December 1995
The future of democracy
Preface I The great dichotomy public/private 1 A dichotomous pair 2 Corresponding dichotomies 3 The evaluative use of the great dichotomy 4 The second meeting of the dichotomy II Civil Society 1 The various meanings 2 The Marxian interpretation 3 The Hegelian system 4.
Integration and identification
L'A. etudie le probleme de l'ideologie dans les communautes en montrant a la suite de Fromm qu'elles ont besoin d'une transcendance. Ainsi se trouvent traitees les differentes ideologies modernes dans leur structure psycho-dynamique et symbolique
Fascism
When this century was stillyoung, a brand-new ideological force which came to be known as ‘fascism’ burst upon a Europe just recovering from the body-blows of the First World War and the Russian Revolution. Before long it had brutally put paid to any dreams which liberals, democratic socialists, and communists might have had that a new era of international progress and harmony had dawned in the wake of so much pointless suffering and death. It mi…
Avant-garde florence. From modernism to fascism
Nazi Art
Journal Article Nazi Art: Romantic Twilight or (Post)modernist Dawn? Get access ROGER GRIFFIN ROGER GRIFFIN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Oxford Art Journal, Volume 18, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 103–107, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxartj/18.2.103 Published: 01 December 1995
Totalitarian Art and the Nemesis of Modernity
Journal Article Totalitarian Art and the Nemesis of Modernity Get access David Britt (ed.), Art and Power: Europe under the Dictators ( Oktagon : Stuttgart , 1995 ), 360 pp. paperback ISBN 1-85332-148-6 , out of print. ROGER GRIFFIN ROGER GRIFFIN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Oxford Art Journal, Volume 19, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 122–124, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxartj/19.2.122 Published: 01 December 1996
Three faces of Fascism
Roger Eafwell, Fascism. London: Chatto and Windus, 1995. xxiii+327pp. Ind. £20.00, £8.99 pbk. Conan Fischer, The Rise of the Nazis. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995 (New Frontiers in History), vi+194pp. Bibl. Ind. £35.00, £8.99 pbk. John Whittam, Fascist Italy. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995 (New Frontiers in History). x+179pp. Notes. Bibl. Ind. £35.00, £10.99 pbk
The ‘post‐Fascism’ of the Alleanza Nazionale
This article sets out to resolve the contentious issue of the Alleanza Nazionale's (AN's) relationship to Fascism by focusing on the party's first official programme, the Theses published when it formally replaced the overtly fascist Movimento Sociale Italiano in January 1995. Considered in the light of a particular model both of generic fascism and ideological morphology, these theses document the considerable extent to which the AN's vision of …
Shorter Notices
Nationalisms
Journal Article Nationalisms: the nation-state and nationalism in the twentieth century and Nationalism reframed: nationhood and the national question in the new Europe Get access Nationalisms: the nation-state and nationalism in the twentieth century. By Montserrat Guibernau. Oxford: Polity. 1995. 174pp. Index. £39.50; ISBN 0 7456 1401 9. Pb.: £12.95; ISBN 0 7456 1402 7.Nationalism reframed: nationhood and the national question in the new Europe…
The sacred synthesis
This article challenges commonly held preconceptions about the absence of a cohesive cultural policy by arguing that, while many rival aesthetic creeds were accommodated under Mussolini's regime, they can all be seen as permutations of a common vision of the central role to be played by a culture in the regeneration of the national community and the creation of a new Italy. It points to a profound relationship between Fascism's cultural policy an…
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access ROGER GRIFFIN ROGER GRIFFIN Oxford Brookes University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXIII, Issue 453, September 1998, Pages 1030–1031, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXIII.453.1030 Published: 01 September 1998
Shorter Notices
Notes towards the definition of fascist culture
(1999). Notes towards the definition of fascist culture: The prospects for synergy between marxist and liberal heuristics. Renaissance and Modern Studies: Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 95-114
Net Gains and GUD Reactions
Using the student organization Groupe d'union et de défense (GUD) as a case-study, Griffin argues that the radical-right groupuscule should not be treated as an embryonic or stunted form of the inter-war 'armed party' epitomized by the Italian Fascist and German Nazi parties. Rather it is to be seen as a genus of extra-parlia-mentary political formation in its own right, perfectly adapted to the inhospitable climate of relatively stable liberal d…
Between metapolitics and apoliteia
The French Nouvelle Droite (ND) represents something of an enigma for students of the far Right as its political allegiances and tactics seem to yield no clear view of its ideological positioning. Here it is argued that one strand of the contemporary ND draws on elements both of Armin Mohler's Conservative Revolution and of the thought of the Italian writer Julius Evola. The fusion allows ND scholars such as Alain de Benoist to develop a stance o…
In the shadow of the megamachine
Hitlers Bewegung im Urteil der polnischen National-demokratie Albert Kotowski
Interregnum or endgame? The radical right in the ‘post-fascist’ era
This article focuses on the two most significant forms taken by ideological mutations of the fascist species of radical right in the hostile climate of post-war Europe: internationalization (Eurofascism, Universal Nazism, Third Positionism), and metapoliticization (Revisionism, the New Right, cyberfascism). It goes on to argue that the 'democratic fascism' of some political parties is emblematic of the extreme marginalization of revolutionary nat…
The Reclamation of Fascist Culture
Fascist Modernities
Guest editor's introduction
The Primacy of Culture
Twenty years after the destruction of the Third Reich, the essence of fascism is still elusive.'1 This statement, taken from the very first issue of the Journal of Contemporary History, edited by Walter Laqueur and George Mosse and dedicated to 'International Fascism 1920-1945', epitomizes the state of fascist studies in the mid-1960s when they were hardly out of their methodological diapers. They had at last started to put behind them an infanti…
The Concept that Came Out of the Cold
This article first surveys the confusion that prevailed in fascist studies for decades, and which makes it quite understandable if the term ‘fascism’ has been generally avoided both by historians and by lecturers and others teaching inter‐war European history to students in non‐specialist ‘survey’ courses. It then outlines the main features of the ‘new consensus’ that is emerging among scholars on the heuristic value of seeing fascism as a form o…
From slime mould to rhizome
Conventional academic research into the legacy of inter-war fascism has generally neglected the myriad minuscule and often ephemeral formations of the extreme right that have sprung up since 1945, and has concentrated instead on abortive attempts to emulate the success of the Nazi and Fascist party-based mass movements, and more recently on non-revolutionary 'neo-populist parties'. However, when examined closely, many of these formations can be o…
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