R. Griffin 
Modernism and Fascism [PDF ebook] 
The Sense of a Beginning under Mussolini and Hitler

Introduction: Aufbruch! PART I:THE SENSE OF A BEGINNING IN MODERNISM The paradoxes of ‘fascist modernism’ Two modes of modernism An archaeology of modernism A primordialist theory of modernism Social modernism 1880-1918 The rise of political modernism 1848-1945 PART II: FASCISM’S MODERNIST STATE The birth of Fascism from modernism The Fascist regime as a Modernist State Nazism as a revitalization movement The modernism of Nazi culture The Third Reich’s biopolitical modernism Casting off Postscript : A Different beginning Bibliography Index

ROGER GRIFFIN is Professor in Modern History at Oxford Brookes University, UK. His major work is
The Nature of Fascism (1991), which established the first new theory of generic fascism for over a decade. This is his first authored book since that 1991 breakthrough. He has also edited
Fascism, a documentary reader of primary sources relating to fascism published by OUP (1995),
International Fascism. Theories, Causes, and the New Consensus, a documentary reader of secondary sources published by Arnold in 1998, and the five volumes of secondary sources relating to fascism in Routledge’s
Critical Concepts in Political Science series (1993).