Origins and Doctrine of Fascism

With Selections from Other Works

Giovanni Gentile

• Verlag: Routledge
• Jahr: 2017
• ISBN:
  9781351501033
• Auflage: 1
• Thema: Politics & International Relations
• Thema: Politics

Giovanni Gentile (1875-1944) was the major theorist of Italian fascism, supplying its justifi cation and rationale as a developmental form of dictatorship for status-deprived nations languishing on the margins of the Great Powers. Gentile's "actualism" (as his philosophy came to be called) absorbed many intellectual currents of the early twentieth century, including nationalism, syndicalism, and futurism. He called the individual to an idealistic ethic of obedience, work, self-sacrifi ce, and national community in a dynamic rebellion against the perceived impostures of imperialism. This volume makes available some of his more signifi cant writings produced shortly before and after the Fascist accession to power in Italy.

Index

action

education and, 86

Fascism and, 18, 34, 62

problematic nature of, 86

unity of thought and, 5, 22, 59

will and, 82, 89

Alfieri, D., 4

anti-individualism, 34, 70

anti-intellectualism, 22–23

anti-materialism, 3, 6, 10, 12

anti-war movement in Italy, 2–3, 15, 18, 45

antinomy, of education, 88, 97, 99

Arais, Guido, 69

Aristotle, 78

Augustine, Saint, 99

authority

liberty and, 30–31

in nationalist States, 28

respect for, needed, 17

the State and, 30, 31, 32

undermined in Italy, 15

Barone, D., 69

Bolshevism, Bolsheviks, 16, 19

brotherhood, 56

Byron, George Gordon, 24

Carl Albert, King of Sardinia and Piedmont, 72

Catholic Church, 6, 12, 13, 31–32

Cavour, Conte di, 4, 5, 6, 7

choice, 89, 93–94

ciphers, 80–81

class struggle, 59–60

cognition, 93

concrete personality, 77–78, 88

concrete will, 53–54

conscience, 92

consciousness freedom and, 93

of nations, 54, 55

self-control and, 79

sensation and, 96

of the State, 31, 54, 71

will and, 54

constitution of Fascist Italy, 37–38, 40, 68, 72

contingencies, 95

Coppola (member Commission of XVIII), 69

corporativism, 29–30, 70–71

Corradini, Senator Enrico, 68

Crispi, Francesco, 8, 9

Croce, Benedetto, Fascism to, xi

culture

anti-intellectu...