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The new fascist body / Dagmar Herzog ; afterword by Alberto Toscano.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Herzog, Dagmar, 1961- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fascism--Psychological aspects--History--21st century.
- Fascism.
- Fascism and sex.
- Miscegenation (Racist theory).
- Racism--Psychological aspects.
- Racism.
- People with disabilities--Nazi persecution.
- People with disabilities.
- Discrimination against people with disabilities--Germany--History--21st century.
- Discrimination against people with disabilities.
- Psychoanalysis and racism.
- Alternative für Deutschland (Political party).
- Fascism and the body.
- Fascism and psychoanalysis.
- New far right (Political movement).
- Local Subjects:
- Fascism and the body.
- Fascism and psychoanalysis.
- New far right (Political movement).
- Physical Description:
- 109 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin : Wirklichkeit Books, [2025]
- Summary:
- "The success of new far-right movements cannot be explained by fear or rage alone–the pleasures of aggression and violence are just as essential. As such, racism is particularly intense when it is erotically charged, migration presenting as a sexual threat to white women being one of many examples. Germany’s strikingly successful right-wing political party Alternative für Deutschland is, according to the historian Dagmar Herzog, characterized by this 'sexy racism,' with its second main feature being that of an obsessive anti-disability hostility–both elements resonating strongly with Nazism. In The New Fascist Body, Herzog connects her analysis of fascism’s libidinous energy with its animus against bodies perceived as imperfect. Only by studying the emotional and intellectual worlds of past fascisms can we understand and combat their current manifestations"--Back cover.
- Contents:
- I. Prelude : the preoccupations of postmodern fascism. Sexy racism ; Obsessive hostility to disability ; Smartness talk
- II. The promise of pleasure : incitement and disavowal in Nazi Germany. Nazis, Christians, Jews
- III. The longing to be a Volk that is strong, beautiful
- and smart. Death wishes ; Germany's narcissistic wound ; Disability as result of sexual sin ; Master-race fantasies
- Fragments for a theory of the late fascist body : afterword / by Alberto Toscano.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 93-107).
- ISBN:
- 9783948200206
- 3948200203
- OCLC:
- 1553739445
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