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Record Nr.

UNINA9910554485203321

Autore

Gottfried Paul <1941->

Titolo

Antifascism : the course of a crusade / / Paul Gottfried [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 2022

ISBN

1-5017-5936-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 pages)

Collana

Cornell scholarship online

Disciplina

320.53309

Soggetti

Fascism - History

Anti-fascist movements - History

Right and left (Political science) - History

History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: DeKalb: NIU Press, 2021.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Antifa and the Mainstreaming of Antifascism -- Origins of Antifascism -- Post-World War II Antifascism -- Defining and Redefining Fascism -- Populism vs. Antifascism -- The Uses and Abuses of "Conservative" Antifascism -- The Antifascist State -- Excursus : Antifascism and the Nature of Hobbesian Authority -- Afterthoughts.

Sommario/riassunto

"This book deals with the continuing appeal of antifascism as a political concept and as a tool for fighting a real or imagined fascist enemy. Antifascism has undergone significant changes in how it has understood and combatted a perceived fascist danger from the 1920s down to the present"--