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Online-Ressource (385 p)
ISBN:
9780804774574
Content:
The Aesthetics of Hate examines the writings of a motley collection of interwar far-right intellectuals, showing that they defined Frenchness in racial, gendered, and sexual terms. A broad, ambitious cultural and intellectual history, the book offers a provocative reinterpretation of a topic that has long been the subject of controversy. In works infused with rhetorics of abjection, disgust, and dissolution, such writers as Maulnier, Brasillach, Céline, and Blanchot imagined the nation through figures deemed illegitimate or inferior-Jews, colonial subjects, homosexuals, women. Sanos argues tha
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. "The Crisis Is in Man" : The Nation, the Self, and Cultural Politics in the 1930s; 2. A Genealogy of the Far Right; 3. "Will We Get Out of French Abjection?" : The Politics and Aesthetic Insurgency of the Young New Right; 4. The Absent Author: Maurice Blanchot and the Subjection of Politics; 5. "Negroid Jews Against White Men" : Louis-Ferdinand Celine and the Politics of Literature; 6. The Race of Facism: Je Suis Partout, Race and Culture; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780804782838
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780804774574
Additional Edition:
Print version The Aesthetics of Hate : Far-Right Intellectuals, Antisemitism, and Gender in 1930s France
Language:
English
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