Alberto Spektorowski
Biographic Data
| ID | 273796 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alberto Spektorowski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alberto |
| FAMILY NAME | Spektorowski |
| SIGNATURE | SPEKTOROWSKI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5170-8522 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 97 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and Anti-Zionism: Discrimination and Political Construction
This article argues that from the end of the 19thcentury, the debate about anti-Semitism became a marker for a wider dispute focusing on the meaning of national identity. Integrating the Jews into the polity was part, and even a justification, of the Enlightenment political project and of the democratic state. However, while the Jewish question was fundamental for politics and philosophy in the Enlightenment, in our time, as the Enlightenment fad…
From Multiculturalism to Democratic Discrimination: The Challenge of Islam and the Re-emergence of Europe’s Nationalism
The effect of Islam on Western Europe has been profound. Spektorowski and Elfersy argue that it has transformed European democratic values by inspiring an ultra-liberalism that now faces an ultra-conservative backlash. Questions of what to do about Muslim immigration, how to deal with burqas, how to deal with gender politics, have all been influenced by western democracies' grappling with ideas of inclusion and most recently, exclusion. This book…
Israel’s National Identity: The Changing Ethos of Conflict
The debate on Israel’s ethos of conflict in shaping its national identity is never-ending. To be precise, there is nothing odd in the fact that national identities evolve out of an ethos of conflict in most countries. However, the persistence and intensity of the ethos of conflict in determining Israel’s political life makes Israel an interesting case study—thus Neta Oren’s discussion in this book is of theoretical relevance. An ethos can be defi…
Fascism and Post-National Europe: Drieu La Rochelle and Alain de Benoist
The idea of a Europe of its peoples, or a post-nation-state ‘regionalist Europe’, is largely applauded by radical democratic and post-colonial theorists who considered this development an antidote to nationalism. What is hardly heeded by liberal as well as left-wing intellectuals, however, is that several fascist and neo-fascist intellectuals during the inter-war and the post-war eras have also been attracted by the idea of a post-nation-state, ‘…
The French New Right: Multiculturalism of the right and the recognition/exclusionism syndrome
This article studies a seeming paradox – the adoption of multi-culturalist strategies and arguments by the neo-fascist European New Right. Why would neo-fascists adopt such a theoretical framework, and why has multiculturalism failed in Europe? In this article, I argue that the European New Right employs a multiculturalism framework, which I define as a recognition/exclusionist one, in order to create a new discourse of 'legitimate exclusionism' …
From ‘race hygiene’ to ‘national-productivist hygiene
This article aims to locate a shift from ‘racial’ eugenics to ‘national-welfare’ eugenics during the 1930s when eugenic policies could no longer be understood independently of socio-economic factors. Eugenic strategies were favoured by social democratic and labour movements as a tool for productionist welfare. In other words, to have welfare, a society should reduce its social non-productive margins while enhancing the productivist aspects. As we…
Staying Alive: Genetics in the Service of the Welfare “People’s Home
This article aims to contribute to the ongoing debate over population politics and the perceived reinvigoration of eugenic practices in “people’s home” countries. The ability of governments to subsidize genetic technologies or familial lifestyle choices also gives them the ability to choose who has access to these technologies and in so doing the ability to favor the procreation of one group over another. The authors suggest that such subsidizati…
Joseph de Maistre, Donoso Cortés and Argentina’s Catholic Right: The Integralist Rebellion against Modernity
Early twentieth‐century Argentina is identified with military authoritarianism as manifested in Felix de Uriburu's coup d'état in 1930 and subsequently in the 1943 military junta regime that preceded Peronism. This article offers a new analysis of the tradition of Argentinian political thought that served to legitimise authoritarian projects during this tumultuous era. Focusing on the work of key Catholic thinkers, such as Menendez y Pelayo, Bona…
Ethnoregionalism, Multicultural Nationalism and the Idea of the European Third Way
While the idea of a Europe of its peoples, or a post‐nation‐state ‘regionalist Europe’ is largely applauded by liberal, radical democratic, and post‐colonial theorists, who welcome this development as an antidote to narrow nationalism, ideologues of the New Right had adopted this idea to their exclusionist political design. Based on what can be defined as ‘multiculturalism of the Right’, the New Right proposes a new European nationalist resurrect…
Eugenics and the Welfare State in Sweden: The Politics of Social Margins and the Idea of a Productive Society
This article focuses on the ideological and political role of Social Democracy in the enactment of eugenic policies in Sweden during the 1930s and 1940s. At first sight, these policies, which could be defined as ‘welfare eugenics’, are in contrast to the ‘racist’ romantic and mythically-based eugenic policies often promoted by conservatives and national socialists. This article analyses this claim by focusing on the productivist reasoning of euge…
The Eugenic Temptation in Socialism: Sweden, Germany, and the Soviet Union
In recent years, eugenics has emerged as a major topic in the history of science. As a mixture of science and policy, as a discipline and social movement, eugenics lies at the interface of biological science and society. The primary feature of 'eugenics,' a term coined by Francis Galton in 1883, is the conviction that human traits of character, for good or evil, are genetically transmitted. This so-called science, therefore, seeks to regulate hum…
Ethnoregionalism: The intellectual new right and the Lega Nord
(2003). Ethnoregionalism: The intellectual new right and the Lega Nord. Global Review of Ethnopolitics: Vol. 2, No. 3-4, pp. 55-70
The New Right: Ethno-regionalism, ethno-pluralism and the emergence of a neo-fascist 'Third Way
This article deals with the ideological evolution of one of the most sophisticated intellectual right-wing groups that appeared in France and Europe during the 1970s. Despite its limited political influence the French New Right has not only shaped the ideological discourse of several right-wing groups in Europe but, paradoxically, has successfully penetrated the discourse of a post-modern Left. This article sheds new light on the synthesis of Rig…
The Intellectual New Right, the European Radical Right and the Ideological Challenge to Liberal Democracy
Maistre, Donoso Cortes, and the Legacy of Catholic Authoritarianism
According to the late Isaiah Berlin, the origins of fascism can be found in Joseph de Maistre's political thought. 1 This well-known thesis was anticipated by Carl Schmitt, a conservative Catholic intellectual who served as one of the most prominent jurists of the Third Reich. He rescued the intellectual contributions of Joseph de Maistre and Donoso Cortés from obscurity by identifying them as the forerunners of his own non-normative theories of …
Ethnic Challenges to the Modern
A compilation of original essays dealing with ethnic challenges to the modern nation-state and to modernity itself, on the philosophical, political and social levels. These issues are examined theoret
Regionalism and the Right: The Case of France
Nationalism and democratic construction: The origins of Argentina and Uruguay's political cultures in comparative perspective
The article focuses on the different effects the formation of national identity had on the development of political democracy in Uruguay and Argentina. Uruguay's process of state building after the civil wars relied on political consensus regarding the rules of the game: the concept of political democracy became an integral part of Uruguay's collective identity. In Argentina, political elites after the civil wars divided on the question of nation…
The French New Right: Differentialism and the Idea of Ethnophilian Exclusionism
While liberal and democratic theories have dealt with the question of cultural demands on liberal society, few essays focus on how a modernized and theoretically demanding New Right has turned the idea of racist exclusionism into a libertarian concept of differentialism, cultural pride, and radical multiculturalism. Indeed, the idea of challenging the concept of a liberal republican tradition of citizenship by means of a pluralist, anti-liberal v…
Authoritarian Argentina. The Nationalist Movement, Its History and Its Impact
DAVID ROCK: University of California Press, 1992
The Ideological Origins of Right and Left Nationalism in Argentina, 1930-43
This work examines the development of a particular nationalist ideology from the late 1920s through Peron's ascent to power, an ideology that has had an important influence on Argentinian politics ever since. Although the first attempt to implement it politically was made in 1930, with Uriburu's abortive military coup, the ideology only achieved consummation with the successful revolution of 1943, which ushered in Peronism. The following analysis…
The Argentine Right. Its History and Intellectual Origins 1910 to the Present
SANDRA McGEE DEUTSCH and RONALD H. DOLKART, Eds.: Scholarly Resources Books, Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A., 1993
Argentina 1930-1940 nacionalismo integral, justicia social y clase obrera
l nacionalismo integral argentino de la década de 1930 y la clase obrera aparecen generalmente en la historiografía argentina como dos conceptos opuestos, inclusive contradictorios{note id=1}. Desde las páginas del periódico conservador La Fronda, y desde La Nueva República, el grupo de jóvenes nacionalistas que elaboraron los lineamientos ideológicos de lo que sería el nacionalismo integral argentino, pretendían dar una respuesta a lo que consid…
Nacionalismo y peronismo. La Argen- tina en la crisis ideológica mundial (1927-1955)
CHRISTHIAN BUCHRUCKER: Ed. Sudamericana, Buenos Aires, 1987
The New Right: Ethno-regionalism, ethno-pluralism and the emergence of a neo-fascist 'Third Way
This article deals with the ideological evolution of one of the most sophisticated intellectual right-wing groups that appeared in France and Europe during the 1970s. Despite its limited political influence the French New Right has not only shaped the ideological discourse of several right-wing groups in Europe but, paradoxically, has successfully penetrated the discourse of a post-modern Left. This article sheds new light on the synthesis of Rig…
Eugenics and the Welfare State in Sweden: The Politics of Social Margins and the Idea of a Productive Society
This article focuses on the ideological and political role of Social Democracy in the enactment of eugenic policies in Sweden during the 1930s and 1940s. At first sight, these policies, which could be defined as ‘welfare eugenics’, are in contrast to the ‘racist’ romantic and mythically-based eugenic policies often promoted by conservatives and national socialists. This article analyses this claim by focusing on the productivist reasoning of euge…
Ethnoregionalism: The intellectual new right and the Lega Nord
(2003). Ethnoregionalism: The intellectual new right and the Lega Nord. Global Review of Ethnopolitics: Vol. 2, No. 3-4, pp. 55-70
The French New Right: Differentialism and the Idea of Ethnophilian Exclusionism
While liberal and democratic theories have dealt with the question of cultural demands on liberal society, few essays focus on how a modernized and theoretically demanding New Right has turned the idea of racist exclusionism into a libertarian concept of differentialism, cultural pride, and radical multiculturalism. Indeed, the idea of challenging the concept of a liberal republican tradition of citizenship by means of a pluralist, anti-liberal v…
Fascism and Post-National Europe: Drieu La Rochelle and Alain de Benoist
The idea of a Europe of its peoples, or a post-nation-state ‘regionalist Europe’, is largely applauded by radical democratic and post-colonial theorists who considered this development an antidote to nationalism. What is hardly heeded by liberal as well as left-wing intellectuals, however, is that several fascist and neo-fascist intellectuals during the inter-war and the post-war eras have also been attracted by the idea of a post-nation-state, ‘…
The French New Right: Multiculturalism of the right and the recognition/exclusionism syndrome
This article studies a seeming paradox – the adoption of multi-culturalist strategies and arguments by the neo-fascist European New Right. Why would neo-fascists adopt such a theoretical framework, and why has multiculturalism failed in Europe? In this article, I argue that the European New Right employs a multiculturalism framework, which I define as a recognition/exclusionist one, in order to create a new discourse of 'legitimate exclusionism' …
The Eugenic Temptation in Socialism: Sweden, Germany, and the Soviet Union
In recent years, eugenics has emerged as a major topic in the history of science. As a mixture of science and policy, as a discipline and social movement, eugenics lies at the interface of biological science and society. The primary feature of 'eugenics,' a term coined by Francis Galton in 1883, is the conviction that human traits of character, for good or evil, are genetically transmitted. This so-called science, therefore, seeks to regulate hum…
The Intellectual New Right, the European Radical Right and the Ideological Challenge to Liberal Democracy
Maistre, Donoso Cortes, and the Legacy of Catholic Authoritarianism
According to the late Isaiah Berlin, the origins of fascism can be found in Joseph de Maistre's political thought. 1 This well-known thesis was anticipated by Carl Schmitt, a conservative Catholic intellectual who served as one of the most prominent jurists of the Third Reich. He rescued the intellectual contributions of Joseph de Maistre and Donoso Cortés from obscurity by identifying them as the forerunners of his own non-normative theories of …
Israel’s National Identity: The Changing Ethos of Conflict
The debate on Israel’s ethos of conflict in shaping its national identity is never-ending. To be precise, there is nothing odd in the fact that national identities evolve out of an ethos of conflict in most countries. However, the persistence and intensity of the ethos of conflict in determining Israel’s political life makes Israel an interesting case study—thus Neta Oren’s discussion in this book is of theoretical relevance. An ethos can be defi…
From ‘race hygiene’ to ‘national-productivist hygiene
This article aims to locate a shift from ‘racial’ eugenics to ‘national-welfare’ eugenics during the 1930s when eugenic policies could no longer be understood independently of socio-economic factors. Eugenic strategies were favoured by social democratic and labour movements as a tool for productionist welfare. In other words, to have welfare, a society should reduce its social non-productive margins while enhancing the productivist aspects. As we…
Staying Alive: Genetics in the Service of the Welfare “People’s Home
This article aims to contribute to the ongoing debate over population politics and the perceived reinvigoration of eugenic practices in “people’s home” countries. The ability of governments to subsidize genetic technologies or familial lifestyle choices also gives them the ability to choose who has access to these technologies and in so doing the ability to favor the procreation of one group over another. The authors suggest that such subsidizati…
Ethnoregionalism, Multicultural Nationalism and the Idea of the European Third Way
While the idea of a Europe of its peoples, or a post‐nation‐state ‘regionalist Europe’ is largely applauded by liberal, radical democratic, and post‐colonial theorists, who welcome this development as an antidote to narrow nationalism, ideologues of the New Right had adopted this idea to their exclusionist political design. Based on what can be defined as ‘multiculturalism of the Right’, the New Right proposes a new European nationalist resurrect…
Regionalism and the Right: The Case of France
Nacionalismo y peronismo. La Argen- tina en la crisis ideológica mundial (1927-1955)
CHRISTHIAN BUCHRUCKER: Ed. Sudamericana, Buenos Aires, 1987
Argentina 1930-1940 nacionalismo integral, justicia social y clase obrera
l nacionalismo integral argentino de la década de 1930 y la clase obrera aparecen generalmente en la historiografía argentina como dos conceptos opuestos, inclusive contradictorios{note id=1}. Desde las páginas del periódico conservador La Fronda, y desde La Nueva República, el grupo de jóvenes nacionalistas que elaboraron los lineamientos ideológicos de lo que sería el nacionalismo integral argentino, pretendían dar una respuesta a lo que consid…
The Argentine Right. Its History and Intellectual Origins 1910 to the Present
SANDRA McGEE DEUTSCH and RONALD H. DOLKART, Eds.: Scholarly Resources Books, Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A., 1993
Authoritarian Argentina. The Nationalist Movement, Its History and Its Impact
DAVID ROCK: University of California Press, 1992
The Ideological Origins of Right and Left Nationalism in Argentina, 1930-43
This work examines the development of a particular nationalist ideology from the late 1920s through Peron's ascent to power, an ideology that has had an important influence on Argentinian politics ever since. Although the first attempt to implement it politically was made in 1930, with Uriburu's abortive military coup, the ideology only achieved consummation with the successful revolution of 1943, which ushered in Peronism. The following analysis…
Ethnic Challenges to the Modern
A compilation of original essays dealing with ethnic challenges to the modern nation-state and to modernity itself, on the philosophical, political and social levels. These issues are examined theoret
Regionalism and the Right: The Case of France
Nationalism and democratic construction: The origins of Argentina and Uruguay's political cultures in comparative perspective
The article focuses on the different effects the formation of national identity had on the development of political democracy in Uruguay and Argentina. Uruguay's process of state building after the civil wars relied on political consensus regarding the rules of the game: the concept of political democracy became an integral part of Uruguay's collective identity. In Argentina, political elites after the civil wars divided on the question of nation…
The French New Right: Differentialism and the Idea of Ethnophilian Exclusionism
While liberal and democratic theories have dealt with the question of cultural demands on liberal society, few essays focus on how a modernized and theoretically demanding New Right has turned the idea of racist exclusionism into a libertarian concept of differentialism, cultural pride, and radical multiculturalism. Indeed, the idea of challenging the concept of a liberal republican tradition of citizenship by means of a pluralist, anti-liberal v…
The Intellectual New Right, the European Radical Right and the Ideological Challenge to Liberal Democracy
Maistre, Donoso Cortes, and the Legacy of Catholic Authoritarianism
According to the late Isaiah Berlin, the origins of fascism can be found in Joseph de Maistre's political thought. 1 This well-known thesis was anticipated by Carl Schmitt, a conservative Catholic intellectual who served as one of the most prominent jurists of the Third Reich. He rescued the intellectual contributions of Joseph de Maistre and Donoso Cortés from obscurity by identifying them as the forerunners of his own non-normative theories of …
Ethnoregionalism: The intellectual new right and the Lega Nord
(2003). Ethnoregionalism: The intellectual new right and the Lega Nord. Global Review of Ethnopolitics: Vol. 2, No. 3-4, pp. 55-70
The New Right: Ethno-regionalism, ethno-pluralism and the emergence of a neo-fascist 'Third Way
This article deals with the ideological evolution of one of the most sophisticated intellectual right-wing groups that appeared in France and Europe during the 1970s. Despite its limited political influence the French New Right has not only shaped the ideological discourse of several right-wing groups in Europe but, paradoxically, has successfully penetrated the discourse of a post-modern Left. This article sheds new light on the synthesis of Rig…
Eugenics and the Welfare State in Sweden: The Politics of Social Margins and the Idea of a Productive Society
This article focuses on the ideological and political role of Social Democracy in the enactment of eugenic policies in Sweden during the 1930s and 1940s. At first sight, these policies, which could be defined as ‘welfare eugenics’, are in contrast to the ‘racist’ romantic and mythically-based eugenic policies often promoted by conservatives and national socialists. This article analyses this claim by focusing on the productivist reasoning of euge…
The Eugenic Temptation in Socialism: Sweden, Germany, and the Soviet Union
In recent years, eugenics has emerged as a major topic in the history of science. As a mixture of science and policy, as a discipline and social movement, eugenics lies at the interface of biological science and society. The primary feature of 'eugenics,' a term coined by Francis Galton in 1883, is the conviction that human traits of character, for good or evil, are genetically transmitted. This so-called science, therefore, seeks to regulate hum…
Ethnoregionalism, Multicultural Nationalism and the Idea of the European Third Way
While the idea of a Europe of its peoples, or a post‐nation‐state ‘regionalist Europe’ is largely applauded by liberal, radical democratic, and post‐colonial theorists, who welcome this development as an antidote to narrow nationalism, ideologues of the New Right had adopted this idea to their exclusionist political design. Based on what can be defined as ‘multiculturalism of the Right’, the New Right proposes a new European nationalist resurrect…
Joseph de Maistre, Donoso Cortés and Argentina’s Catholic Right: The Integralist Rebellion against Modernity
Early twentieth‐century Argentina is identified with military authoritarianism as manifested in Felix de Uriburu's coup d'état in 1930 and subsequently in the 1943 military junta regime that preceded Peronism. This article offers a new analysis of the tradition of Argentinian political thought that served to legitimise authoritarian projects during this tumultuous era. Focusing on the work of key Catholic thinkers, such as Menendez y Pelayo, Bona…
Staying Alive: Genetics in the Service of the Welfare “People’s Home
This article aims to contribute to the ongoing debate over population politics and the perceived reinvigoration of eugenic practices in “people’s home” countries. The ability of governments to subsidize genetic technologies or familial lifestyle choices also gives them the ability to choose who has access to these technologies and in so doing the ability to favor the procreation of one group over another. The authors suggest that such subsidizati…
From ‘race hygiene’ to ‘national-productivist hygiene
This article aims to locate a shift from ‘racial’ eugenics to ‘national-welfare’ eugenics during the 1930s when eugenic policies could no longer be understood independently of socio-economic factors. Eugenic strategies were favoured by social democratic and labour movements as a tool for productionist welfare. In other words, to have welfare, a society should reduce its social non-productive margins while enhancing the productivist aspects. As we…
The French New Right: Multiculturalism of the right and the recognition/exclusionism syndrome
This article studies a seeming paradox – the adoption of multi-culturalist strategies and arguments by the neo-fascist European New Right. Why would neo-fascists adopt such a theoretical framework, and why has multiculturalism failed in Europe? In this article, I argue that the European New Right employs a multiculturalism framework, which I define as a recognition/exclusionist one, in order to create a new discourse of 'legitimate exclusionism' …
Fascism and Post-National Europe: Drieu La Rochelle and Alain de Benoist
The idea of a Europe of its peoples, or a post-nation-state ‘regionalist Europe’, is largely applauded by radical democratic and post-colonial theorists who considered this development an antidote to nationalism. What is hardly heeded by liberal as well as left-wing intellectuals, however, is that several fascist and neo-fascist intellectuals during the inter-war and the post-war eras have also been attracted by the idea of a post-nation-state, ‘…
From Multiculturalism to Democratic Discrimination: The Challenge of Islam and the Re-emergence of Europe’s Nationalism
The effect of Islam on Western Europe has been profound. Spektorowski and Elfersy argue that it has transformed European democratic values by inspiring an ultra-liberalism that now faces an ultra-conservative backlash. Questions of what to do about Muslim immigration, how to deal with burqas, how to deal with gender politics, have all been influenced by western democracies' grappling with ideas of inclusion and most recently, exclusion. This book…
Israel’s National Identity: The Changing Ethos of Conflict
The debate on Israel’s ethos of conflict in shaping its national identity is never-ending. To be precise, there is nothing odd in the fact that national identities evolve out of an ethos of conflict in most countries. However, the persistence and intensity of the ethos of conflict in determining Israel’s political life makes Israel an interesting case study—thus Neta Oren’s discussion in this book is of theoretical relevance. An ethos can be defi…
Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and Anti-Zionism: Discrimination and Political Construction
This article argues that from the end of the 19thcentury, the debate about anti-Semitism became a marker for a wider dispute focusing on the meaning of national identity. Integrating the Jews into the polity was part, and even a justification, of the Enlightenment political project and of the democratic state. However, while the Jewish question was fundamental for politics and philosophy in the Enlightenment, in our time, as the Enlightenment fad…
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