Marco Bresciani

Learning from the Enemy (eBook, ePUB)

An Intellectual History of Antifascism in Interwar Europe

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

When democracy is under threat from authoritarianism, models of resistance must come to the fore. Giustizia e Libert¿, founded by the Italian thinker and activist Carlo Rosselli in 1929, is one intriguing historical example. Operating both in exile and as part of a clandestine network at home, the organization fought against fascism and Nazism, while criticizing Stalinism. To defeat the enemy, the group aimed to go beyond the Marxist notion of class and to assert fresh concepts of nationhood and Europe. The book traces the group's trajectories and debates and follows its legacy to the present.

- 'Bresciani's book is a remarkable contribution to the current debate on the distinctive nature of fascism(s)' - CARLO GINZBURG, author of NEVERTHELESS: MACHIAVELLI, PASCAL
- 'The story that Bresciani tells with great finesse in this necessary book is the heroic history that accompanied the birth of democracy in Italy' - NADIA URBINATI, author of ME THE PEOPLE
- 'Bresciani has given a great gift to fascism's enemies everywhere ... a book of rare intelligence and inspiration' - JOSEPH FRONCZAK, author of EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE
- 'Learning from the Enemy is essential reading for anyone interested in the histories of antifascism, socialism, and liberalism in the twentieth century' - IAIN STEWART, author of RAYMOND ARON AND LIBERAL THOUGHT IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781804292280
• Artikelnr.: 70442502

Autorenporträt

Marco Bresciani is Associate Professor at the University of Florence, Department of Political and Social Sciences. He received his PhD in Contemporary History at the University of Pisa. He was a fellow at the Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa), Remarque Institute (NYU), Centre de Recherches Politiques R. Aron (Ecole Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales), Center for Advanced Studies (Rijeka), University of Zagreb, University of Verona. His research concerns Italian and European antifascism and anti-totalitarianism, socialism and liberalism, as well as nationalism and fascism between Italian and Central Europe. He published Quale antifascism? Storia di Giustizia e Libert¿ (Rome 2017) and edited Conservatives and Right Radicals in Interwar Europe (London 2021).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Archives and Libraries
Abbreviations
Introduction
Which Antifascism?
Learning from the Enemy
1. Antifascism as an Experiment
1.1. Understanding Fascism Means Fighting Fascism
1.2. Group Picture: Between Giolitti and Mussolini
1.3. Blending Liberalism, Democracy, and Socialism
1.4. The Turtle Conspiracy
1.5. In the Shadow of Piero (But Not Only)
2. Exile in Paris as a Laboratory
2.1. Fascism: ‘Th e Autobiography of a Nation’, or of Europe?
2.2. Crisis of Democracy and of the Nation-State
2.3. Class Politics, Revolutionary Myths, Soviet Dictatorship
2.4. ‘Non-Conformist’ Strategies of Imitation and Competition
2.5. Crisis of Civilization
3. Time for Action?
3.1. A ‘European Civil War’
3.2. ‘Which Italy?’
3.3. ‘Conspiracy in Broad Daylight’ (Turin)
3.4. Different Time Frames
3.5. Spain: An International Battleground
4. Shades of Socialism
4.1. Rosselli’s Legacy: What Form of Socialism in an Age of Tyranny?
4.2. Nations, Europes, and Empires
4.3. Exploring the World (from a Prison Cell in Rome)
4.4. In the Footsteps of Heretics and Utopians
5. A Posthumous (and Hidden) Vitality
5.1. From the Fall of Paris to the Resistance
5.2. The Knight and the Castle
Index