Fascism, liberalism and Europeanism in the political thought of Bertrand de Jouvenel and Alfred Fabre-Luce / Daniel Knegt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Knegt, Daniel.

Series:

Studies of the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies

NIOD studies on war, Holocaust, and genocide

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jouvenel, Bertrand de, 1903-1987--Political and social views.

Jouvenel, Bertrand de.

Fabre-Luce, Alfred, 1899-1983--Political and social views.

Fabre-Luce, Alfred.

Fabre-Luce, Alfred, 1899-1983.

Jouvenel, Bertrand de, 1903-1987.

Fascism--France--History--20th century.

Fascism.

Liberalism--France--History--20th century.

Liberalism.

Political science--Philosophy--History--20th century.

Political science.

Political science--Philosophy.

History.

Political and social views.

France.

Physical Description:

286 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Despite the recent rise in studies that approach fascism as a transnational phenomenon, the links between fascism and internationalist intellectual currents have only received scant attention. This book explores the political thought of Bertrand de Jouvenel and Alfred Fabre-Luce, two French intellectuals, journalists and political writers who, from 1930 to the mid-1950s, moved between liberalism, fascism and Europeanism. Daniel Knegt argues that their longing for a united Europe was the driving force behind this ideological transformation-and that we can see in their thought the earliest stages of what would become neoliberalism.

Contents:

Introduction: Fascism in France and Beyond 13

Intellectual Fascism? 13

Between Immunity and Pan-Fascism 17

New Perspectives 27

Europeanism, Fascism and Neoliberalism 34

1 'En Faisant l'Europe': Internationalism and the Fascist Drift 45

'La Nouvelle Génération Européenne': Generational Politics in 1920s France 45

Reconciliation with Germany at All Costs? 53

Metaphysical Europeanism 61

2 Planning, Fascism and the State: 1930-1939 69

From Liberalism to 'I'Économie Dirigée' 69

A National and Social Revolution 74

Party Intellectuals at the Service of Fascism 84

3 Facing a Fascist Europe: 1939-1943 95

Defeat and Readjustment 95

Tracing the Origins of Defeat 105

'On the Threshold of a New World' 118

New Rulers, Old Acquaintances 126

Collaboration and Attentisme 137

4 A European Revolution?: Liberation and the Post-War Extreme Right 159

Liberation and Persecution 159

Exile and Exclusion 174

'Beyond Nazism': Monarchism and the Heritage of Fascism 183

Reinventing the Extreme Right 193

Europeanism, Federalism and the Reconfiguration of the Extreme Right 209

5 Europeanism, Neoliberalism and the Cold War 221

On Private Life and Facial Hair 221

On Power: Pessimism, Aristocracy and the Distrust of Democracy 226

A Mountain in Switzerland: Neoliberalism and the Mont Pèlerin Society 235

'This General Feeling of Open Conspiracy' 248.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789462983335

946298333X

OCLC:

979568103

Online:

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