Federico Finchelstein
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 413232 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Federico Finchelstein |
| NOMBRES | Federico |
| APELLIDO | Finchelstein |
| FIRMA | FINCHELSTEIN F |
| AFILIACIONES | New School |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2006 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
The Wannabe Fascists
Meet today's almost fascists and learn the warning signs to intercept them on the road from populism to dictatorship. With The Wannabe Fascists , historian Federico Finchelstein offers a precise explanation of why Trumpism and similar movements across the world belong to a new political breed, the last outcome of the combined histories of fascism and populism: the wannabe fascists. This new type of populist politician is typically a legally elect…
Introducción
Los estudios sobre la historia del psicoanálisis en América Latina, luego de décadas de espacios historiográficos inexplicables, han dejado su marca en tiempos más recientes y ya constituyen un desarrollo plural que trasciende naciones y temáticas.A diferencia de las historiografías del norte, en América Latina, la "psico-historia" (la vertiente historiográfica que proponía "psicoanalizar a las fuentes" desde Napoleón a Hitler) no tuvo una reperc…
Authoritarianism and Free Markets
Is there a link between authoritarian politics and free market economics? How important has economic theory been historically to the rise of authoritarian systems and ideologies? Are fascism and populism determined by economic priorities or economic interests? In this article, I argue that economics was not that important, and certainly not as important as politics was, for fascists and populists. I then address how this is changing in the presen…
A Brief History of Fascist Lies
";There is no better book on fascism's complex and vexed relationship with truth.";-Jason Stanley, author of How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them In this short companion to his book From Fascism to Populism in History, world-renowned historian Federico Finchelstein explains why fascists regarded simple and often hateful lies as truth, and why so many of their followers believed the falsehoods. Throughout the history of the twentieth cen…
The Holocaust and Historical Methodology
In the last two decades our empirical knowledge of the Holocaust has been vastly expanded. Yet this empirical blossoming has not been accompanied by much theoretical reflection on the historiography. This volume argues that reflection on the historical process of (re)constructing the past is as important for understanding the Holocaust-and, by extension, any past event-as is archival research. It aims to go beyond the dominant paradigm of politic…
Fascist Mythologies
Federico Finchelstein draws on a striking combination of thinkers—Jorge Luis Borges, Sigmund Freud, and Carl Schmitt—to consider fascism as a form of political mythmaking. At a moment when forces redolent of fascism cast a shadow over world affairs, this book provides a timely critical analysis of the dangers of myth in modern politics
The Authoritarian Personality and the History of Fascism
Historians are often allergic to ideas of collective pathology. I do not disagree at all with these objections and concerns. And yet, this paper stresses the centrality of the book The Authoritarian Personality because in addition to its problematic pathologizing tendencies, it also poses important challenges to the history of fascism, especially in terms of the latter's periodization and its intellectual history. In other words, it is time to th…
Para una historia global del populismo
La globalidad histórica del populismo parece ser una paradoja, pues son justamente esos ideólogos nacionalistas y populistas quienes acusan a sus enemigos de “globalistas”, y quienes asimismo se presentan como actores jóvenes, sin antecedentes históricos, o incluso como el resultado de un capítulo nuevo en la historia del mundo, que el propio caudillo actual de la Casa Blanca ha denominado “la era de Trump”. En teoría, los nuevos populistas son n…
A Brief History of Fascist Lies
From Fascism to Populism in History
Populism without borders. Notes on a global history
Authoritarianism and Corporatism in Europe and Latin America
On Populism and Democracy
Populism became the name of a form of government after the demise of Fascism. As a political form located between constitutional government and dictatorship, it displays family resemblances with opposite political systems, like liberal democracy and fascism. Today, populism grows within both democratizing and fully democratic societies although it takes its most mature riling profile in representative democracies, which are its real target. Histo…
From Fascism to Populism in History
Carl Schmitt Between History and Myth
Carl Schmitt's work defines the history and theory of political myth. But analyzing it represents a challenge to historians and theorists alike. For many historians, Schmitt should be analyzed in his own context, whereas theorists study his writings without enough consideration of the specific context in which he conceived his texts. In this essay, I argue that Schmitt not only contributed to the fascist glorification of the mythical and its nove…
Truth, Mythology and the Fascist Unconscious
From Holocaust Trauma to the Dirty War
Violence defines the global experience of fascism as an ideology, movement, and regime, as well as its subsequent reception after 1945. This article is part of this a transnational trend in the study of fascism examining such violence, but it also proposes to expand it by way of studying its transatlantic repercussions in the postwar period, especially in terms of what I call a “transcontextual history” of trauma and especially for the case of th…
The Ideological Origins of the Dirty War
The book tells the history of modern Argentina as seen from the perspective of political violence and ideology. It focuses on the theory and practice of the fascist idea in Argentine political culture throughout the twentieth century. It analyzes the connections between fascist theory and the Holocaust, anti-Semitism and the military junta’s practices of torture and state violence (1976-1983), its networks of concentration camps and extermination…
Returning Populism to History
Mussolini's National Project in Argentina
This book represents a welcome addition to studies of fascism and migration. The history of both southern Italian immigration to Argentina and the Italian fascists’ attempts to dominate this immigrant community have been approached by Italian historians such as Emilio Gentile, Loris Zanatta, and Eugenia Scarzanella, among many others, as well as by Argentine historians such as Fernando Devoto and María Victoria Grillo. In this context, David Alia…
Braden o Perón. La histora oculta. FabiÁN Bosoer
El dinámico libro de Fabián Bosoer nos brinda una narrativa sugerentemente analítica sobre el encuentro de dos vidas políticas paralelas. La historia de Spruille Braden y Juan Domingo Perón fue y sigue siendo central para entender el peronismo y por lo tanto también a la historia argentina moderna en su conjunto. Como nos recuerda Bosoer, la oposición del embajador norteamericano al coronel argentino fue un factor central para que éste accediera …
Transatlantic Fascism
Fascism Becomes Desire
In early 1933 Sigmund Freud received an inconvenient visitor. The visitor was Giovachino Forzano, a renowned fascist opera composer and a personal friend of Benito Mussolini. Forzano’s daughter was a patient of Edoardo Weiss, the noted Italian psychoanalyst. A Freudian loyalist, Weiss wanted Freud’s personal supervision of the case and he went to the Austrian capital taking with him his patient and her fascist father. The three distinctive indivi…
La inmigración fascista en la Argentina
The image of Argentina as a paradise for fascists is widely shared across the globe. To be sure, many Nazis escaped to Argentina and, thanks to the Peronists’ warm reception of them, international justice was not served. But other countries in the Western hemisphere received German fascists without much fanfare or historical research. The myth of a postwar Argentina overflowing with Nazis and fascists is problematic, yet it contains important gra…
On Fascist Ideology
Returning Populism to History
On Populism and Democracy
Populism became the name of a form of government after the demise of Fascism. As a political form located between constitutional government and dictatorship, it displays family resemblances with opposite political systems, like liberal democracy and fascism. Today, populism grows within both democratizing and fully democratic societies although it takes its most mature riling profile in representative democracies, which are its real target. Histo…
Populism without borders. Notes on a global history
The Authoritarian Personality and the History of Fascism
Historians are often allergic to ideas of collective pathology. I do not disagree at all with these objections and concerns. And yet, this paper stresses the centrality of the book The Authoritarian Personality because in addition to its problematic pathologizing tendencies, it also poses important challenges to the history of fascism, especially in terms of the latter's periodization and its intellectual history. In other words, it is time to th…
On Fascist Ideology
Carl Schmitt Between History and Myth
Carl Schmitt's work defines the history and theory of political myth. But analyzing it represents a challenge to historians and theorists alike. For many historians, Schmitt should be analyzed in his own context, whereas theorists study his writings without enough consideration of the specific context in which he conceived his texts. In this essay, I argue that Schmitt not only contributed to the fascist glorification of the mythical and its nove…
The Anti-Freudian Politics of Argentine Fascism
This article examines the anti-Freudian discourse of Argentine fascism between 1932 and 1945. It argues that Argentine fascists rejected psychoanalysis not only because of its Jewish origins but also because of its perceived challenge to Catholic values and patriarchal authority. They viewed psychoanalysis as a threat to national identity and social order, associating it with communism, liberalism, and moral degeneracy. By constructing psychoanal…
The Fascist Canon Renzo De Felice and the Writing of History
In recent years, particularly after Renzo De Felice's death in 1996, the perception of this historian's historiographical role as foundational for Italian history has been expanded to the extent that his oeuvre has now been canonized in Italy as the expression of a putatively hegemonic historiography on fascism. This paper argues that this canonization process should be analyzed in critical terms since, as with any canon, De Felice's work has — b…
Nacionalismo y anti-semitismo en la Argentina
Studies on the origins of nationalism and fascism in Argentina between 1890 and 1945 have generally highlighted the importance of anti-Semitism during this period. However, with the exception of an excellent collection edited by Leonardo Senkman, there has been no comprehensive study on this topic prior to now. That alone makes Daniel Lvovich’s publication an important addition to the literature. Lvovich, in insisting on the relevance of his subj…
The Anti-Freudian Politics of Argentine Fascism
This article examines the anti-Freudian discourse of Argentine fascism between 1932 and 1945. It argues that Argentine fascists rejected psychoanalysis not only because of its Jewish origins but also because of its perceived challenge to Catholic values and patriarchal authority. They viewed psychoanalysis as a threat to national identity and social order, associating it with communism, liberalism, and moral degeneracy. By constructing psychoanal…
On Fascist Ideology
Fascism Becomes Desire
In early 1933 Sigmund Freud received an inconvenient visitor. The visitor was Giovachino Forzano, a renowned fascist opera composer and a personal friend of Benito Mussolini. Forzano’s daughter was a patient of Edoardo Weiss, the noted Italian psychoanalyst. A Freudian loyalist, Weiss wanted Freud’s personal supervision of the case and he went to the Austrian capital taking with him his patient and her fascist father. The three distinctive indivi…
La inmigración fascista en la Argentina
The image of Argentina as a paradise for fascists is widely shared across the globe. To be sure, many Nazis escaped to Argentina and, thanks to the Peronists’ warm reception of them, international justice was not served. But other countries in the Western hemisphere received German fascists without much fanfare or historical research. The myth of a postwar Argentina overflowing with Nazis and fascists is problematic, yet it contains important gra…
Transatlantic Fascism
Braden o Perón. La histora oculta. FabiÁN Bosoer
El dinámico libro de Fabián Bosoer nos brinda una narrativa sugerentemente analítica sobre el encuentro de dos vidas políticas paralelas. La historia de Spruille Braden y Juan Domingo Perón fue y sigue siendo central para entender el peronismo y por lo tanto también a la historia argentina moderna en su conjunto. Como nos recuerda Bosoer, la oposición del embajador norteamericano al coronel argentino fue un factor central para que éste accediera …
The Ideological Origins of the Dirty War
The book tells the history of modern Argentina as seen from the perspective of political violence and ideology. It focuses on the theory and practice of the fascist idea in Argentine political culture throughout the twentieth century. It analyzes the connections between fascist theory and the Holocaust, anti-Semitism and the military junta’s practices of torture and state violence (1976-1983), its networks of concentration camps and extermination…
Returning Populism to History
Mussolini's National Project in Argentina
This book represents a welcome addition to studies of fascism and migration. The history of both southern Italian immigration to Argentina and the Italian fascists’ attempts to dominate this immigrant community have been approached by Italian historians such as Emilio Gentile, Loris Zanatta, and Eugenia Scarzanella, among many others, as well as by Argentine historians such as Fernando Devoto and María Victoria Grillo. In this context, David Alia…
From Holocaust Trauma to the Dirty War
Violence defines the global experience of fascism as an ideology, movement, and regime, as well as its subsequent reception after 1945. This article is part of this a transnational trend in the study of fascism examining such violence, but it also proposes to expand it by way of studying its transatlantic repercussions in the postwar period, especially in terms of what I call a “transcontextual history” of trauma and especially for the case of th…
Truth, Mythology and the Fascist Unconscious
From Fascism to Populism in History
Carl Schmitt Between History and Myth
Carl Schmitt's work defines the history and theory of political myth. But analyzing it represents a challenge to historians and theorists alike. For many historians, Schmitt should be analyzed in his own context, whereas theorists study his writings without enough consideration of the specific context in which he conceived his texts. In this essay, I argue that Schmitt not only contributed to the fascist glorification of the mythical and its nove…
Authoritarianism and Corporatism in Europe and Latin America
On Populism and Democracy
Populism became the name of a form of government after the demise of Fascism. As a political form located between constitutional government and dictatorship, it displays family resemblances with opposite political systems, like liberal democracy and fascism. Today, populism grows within both democratizing and fully democratic societies although it takes its most mature riling profile in representative democracies, which are its real target. Histo…
From Fascism to Populism in History
Populism without borders. Notes on a global history
Para una historia global del populismo
La globalidad histórica del populismo parece ser una paradoja, pues son justamente esos ideólogos nacionalistas y populistas quienes acusan a sus enemigos de “globalistas”, y quienes asimismo se presentan como actores jóvenes, sin antecedentes históricos, o incluso como el resultado de un capítulo nuevo en la historia del mundo, que el propio caudillo actual de la Casa Blanca ha denominado “la era de Trump”. En teoría, los nuevos populistas son n…
A Brief History of Fascist Lies
A Brief History of Fascist Lies
";There is no better book on fascism's complex and vexed relationship with truth.";-Jason Stanley, author of How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them In this short companion to his book From Fascism to Populism in History, world-renowned historian Federico Finchelstein explains why fascists regarded simple and often hateful lies as truth, and why so many of their followers believed the falsehoods. Throughout the history of the twentieth cen…
The Holocaust and Historical Methodology
In the last two decades our empirical knowledge of the Holocaust has been vastly expanded. Yet this empirical blossoming has not been accompanied by much theoretical reflection on the historiography. This volume argues that reflection on the historical process of (re)constructing the past is as important for understanding the Holocaust-and, by extension, any past event-as is archival research. It aims to go beyond the dominant paradigm of politic…
Fascist Mythologies
Federico Finchelstein draws on a striking combination of thinkers—Jorge Luis Borges, Sigmund Freud, and Carl Schmitt—to consider fascism as a form of political mythmaking. At a moment when forces redolent of fascism cast a shadow over world affairs, this book provides a timely critical analysis of the dangers of myth in modern politics
The Authoritarian Personality and the History of Fascism
Historians are often allergic to ideas of collective pathology. I do not disagree at all with these objections and concerns. And yet, this paper stresses the centrality of the book The Authoritarian Personality because in addition to its problematic pathologizing tendencies, it also poses important challenges to the history of fascism, especially in terms of the latter's periodization and its intellectual history. In other words, it is time to th…
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