The Frankfurt School and the Challenge of Fascism
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The Frankfurt School and the Challenge of Fascism

An Intellectual and Philosophical Reconstruction

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The Frankfurt School and the Challenge of Fascism

An Intellectual and Philosophical Reconstruction

About this book

Fascism is a well-defined historical phenomenon, but its political-ideological offshoots have extended into today's democracies. How should we understand the mimetic and dissimulating capacity of fascism? Starting from the analyses of the exponents of the first Frankfurt School in their rethinking of the Marxian relationship of structure and superstructure, this study considers how fascism may be defined as a specific organization of power together with a form of economic planning accompanied by a masochistic propensity to power. Drawing on archival research at the Horkheimer and Marcuse Archive in Frankfurt, the author guides us through unpublished documents of the Institute of Social Research in the years 1938-1939 concerning the plan to formulate "a theory" on fascism. This was never produced as a single work, allowing space instead to the flourishing of different contributions. The objective of this book is to provide an internal systemic reading of fascism, finding points of mutual integration among critical theorists whenever possible while revealing irreconcilable divergencies when necessary. This topical book will be of interest to academics and researchers working in the areas of philosophy, the history of ideas, legal philosophy, critical theory, economics and political science.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781040445648
Topic
Law
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction
  9. 1 The Frankfurt School facing fascism: A historiographical-conceptual framework
  10. 2 State, law, capital
  11. 3 “A new ‘anthropological’ type”: Psyche, technology, culture
  12. Conclusion
  13. Appendix: The Frankfurt School or Critical Theory
  14. References
  15. Index