To Fight Against This Age: On Fascism And Humanism
by Rob Riemen /
2018 / English / PDF
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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.
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.