To Fight Against This Age: On Fascism and Humanism

Riemen, Rob

ISBN 10: 0393635864 / ISBN 13: 9780393635867

Editore: W. W. Norton & Company, 2018

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An international bestseller, To Fight Against This Age consists of two beautifully written, cogent, and urgent essays about the rise of fascism and the ways in which we can combat it.In The Eternal Return of Fascism, Rob Riemen explores the theoretical weakness of fascism, which depends on a politics of resentment, the incitement of anger and fear, xenophobia, the need for scapegoats, and its hatred of the life of the mind. He draws on history and philosophy as well as the essays and novels of Thomas Mann and Albert Camus to explain the global resurgence of fascism, often disguised by its false promises of ushering in freedom and greatness.Riemen s own response to what he sees as the spiritual crisis of our age is articulated in The Return of Europa, a moving story about the meaning of European humanism with its universal values of truth, beauty, justice, and love for life values that are the origin and basis of a democratic civilization.To Fight Against This Age is as timely as it is timeless, to be read by those who want to understand and change the world in which they live.

Informazioni sull'autore: Rob Riemen is the author of Nobility of Spirit: A Forgotten Ideal (2008), which has been translated into eighteen languages. A writer and cultural philosopher, he is the founder of the Nexus Institute, an international center devoted to intellectual reflection and to inspiring Western cultural and philosophical debate. He lives in the Netherlands.

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Titolo: To Fight Against This Age: On Fascism and ...
Casa editrice: W. W. Norton & Company
Data di pubblicazione: 2018
Legatura: Hardcover
Condizione: Very Good