The “New Man” in Radical Right Ideology and Practice, 1919–45

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ID19924758
AuthorsJorge Dagnino (0000-0002-6271-2658), Matthew Feldman (0000-0002-2494-6533), Paul Stocker (0000-0001-5073-3366)
Year2017
Publication date2017-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueThe “New Man” in Radical Right Ideology and Practice, 1919–45 (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBloomsbury Academic (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5040/9781474281126
OpenAlexW4229941193
Open LibraryOL27358603M
ISBN9781474281126
LanguageEN
Citations received11

Bringing together an expert group of established and emerging scholars, this book analyses the pervasive myth of the ‘new man’ in various fascist movements and far-right regimes between 1919 and 1945. Through a series of ground-breaking case studies focusing on countries in Europe, but with additional chapters on Argentina, Brazil and Japan, The "New Man" in Radical Right Ideology and Practice, 1919-45 argues that what many national forms of far-right politics understood at the time as a so-called ‘anthropological revolution’ is essential to understanding this ideology’s bio-political, often revolutionary dynamics. It explores how these movements promoted the creation of a new, ideal human, what this ideal looked like and what this things tell us about fascism's emergence in the 20th century. The years after World War One saw the rise of regimes and movements professing totalitarian aims. In the case of revolutionary, radical-right movements, these totalising goals extended to changing the very

Aesthetics · Ideal (ethics) · Ideology · Mythology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Radical right · Sociology · Classics · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · French Historical and Cultural Studies · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Philosophy · Fascism · Fascists · Human body · Right-wing extremists · Social aspects · Superman (Philosophical concept)

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