ABSTRACT

This book posits a new theory of fascism as a radical political community of experience.

The author engages with a range of thinkers both critical of and inspiring fascism including Walter Benjamin, Albert Camus, Ernst Jünger, Carl Schmitt, Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger.

This book will be of interest to scholars of the history of political thought, fascism and Nazism.

chapter |18 pages

Introduction

chapter 3|35 pages

Ernst Jünger

It is not what we are fighting for, but how we fight

chapter 4|31 pages

Carl Schmitt's community

Friends against enemies

chapter 5|21 pages

Nietzsche and Heidegger

From nihilism to community of experience

chapter 6|31 pages

The fascist order