Fascism's Return, Scandal, Revision, and Ideology since 1980s

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University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London, 1998, pp. 330

ISBN 0-832-70720-2 (pbk) $25.00

The book's title is in parts misleading. Most of the contributions in this edited collection focus on the question of French fascism, its history and denial; and the responsibility of memory in France. The political significance of the National Front is discussed as it is the raison d'etre of post-modernism's beginning in France. This theoretical development is seen, and rightly so, as part of the denial of the ghost of Vichy France. Post-modernism, it is argued, works within the tradition of existentialism and pessimism that fascist thinkers called their own. The other side …