The Longue Durée of the Far-Right
Author | : Richard Saull |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2014-08-27 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781317664055 |
ISBN-13 | : 1317664051 |
Rating | : 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: This volume brings together a number of international scholars to offer an original analysis of far-right movements and politics, challenging the existing literature through a very different methodological and theoretical perspective. The approach offered here is that of ‘longue durée’ analysis, whereby the far-right is understood as an evolving subject of capitalist modernity. The authors argue that an assessment of the contemporary characteristics of the far-right needs to consider the ways in which it is a product of deeper and longer-term structures of socio-economic and political development, than, for example, the inter-war crises of capitalism. The book aims to provide a critical and theoretically-informed assessment of the history of the far-right that centres on the international as key to any understanding its evolution, and which distinguishes between the fascist and non-fascist variants as an essential precondition for comprehending the far-right presence in contemporary politics