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Italian ModernitiesFascist Modernity

Italian Modernities: Fascist Modernity [Fascism is an Italian invention. It is an Italian word, an Italian ideology, Italy’s gift to the entire world—so Mussolini liked to see it—a unique, progressive model of modernization. This chapter will discuss how Fascism tried to come to grips with Italy’s road to modernity through the reinterpretation of the national past and the elaboration of a nexus between past and present. In particular, the chapter will discuss how Fascism reinterpreted the Risorgimento in order to construct a cohesive narrative grounding its own cosmogony and modernist teleology. Here, the question was not only how to situate Italy and Fascism with respect to the Risorgimento but also how Fascism could legitimate itself and its claim to represent Italy’s version of the future modern.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Italian ModernitiesFascist Modernity

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
ISBN
978-1-137-50155-4
Pages
119 –148
DOI
10.1057/978-1-137-49212-8_5
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Abstract

[Fascism is an Italian invention. It is an Italian word, an Italian ideology, Italy’s gift to the entire world—so Mussolini liked to see it—a unique, progressive model of modernization. This chapter will discuss how Fascism tried to come to grips with Italy’s road to modernity through the reinterpretation of the national past and the elaboration of a nexus between past and present. In particular, the chapter will discuss how Fascism reinterpreted the Risorgimento in order to construct a cohesive narrative grounding its own cosmogony and modernist teleology. Here, the question was not only how to situate Italy and Fascism with respect to the Risorgimento but also how Fascism could legitimate itself and its claim to represent Italy’s version of the future modern.]

Published: Oct 1, 2016

Keywords: French Revolution; Contemporary History; Fiftieth Anniversary; Fascist Regime; Liberal Modernity

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