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| | Postfascism (Fascism Past, Present and Future - Laqueur) |
 | | It is fascinating even in retrospect how a hundred years ago, literary cult figures such as Maurice Barres and Gabriele D'Annunzio transformed themselves in record time from world-weary dandies engaged in the cult of the self and hyper-aestheticism to advocates of super-patriotism and anti-liberal ideas of war and dictatorship that came close to fascism. |
 | | The career of Giulio Evola, from Dadaism to ultra-fascism, proceeded on similar lines, and Martin Heidegger, prophet of nihilism, has become the guru of a later generation of nihilists. |
 | | Writing under Mussolini, thirty years later, Benedetto Croce, great philosopher and astute observer of the Italian scene, wrote that fascism was the new irrationalism and decadence, "including occultism and theosophy, with logical restraints removed, the critical faculties enfeebled, the responsibility of rational assent brushed aside." Croce's comments again sound highly topical. |
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