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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Eternal Order
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Reviews
“Fernando Esposito’s important and complex study, based on his dissertation, picks up on the theme of machine dreams Peter Fritzsche first presented some two decades ago but seeks to integrate it with Roger Griffin’s definition of Fascism as the palingenesis of the nation. … not only students of Fascist discourse but those seeking to understand the many cultures of early aeronautics will benefit from it.” (Guillaume de Syon, Journal of Modern History, Vol. 89 (3), September, 2017)
“Its profundity, sophistication and scholarship draw on and will serve academics in both the humanities and social sciences – in politics, philosophy, history, cultural studies, transport history, art and architecture, and European studies of various stripes. For transport historians, it is a signal treatment of the ideological machinations and artistic ailerons of aviation. For Italian studies, Esposito’s book is a rich source of evidence and a provocative analysis of a strand of ideas and performances that buoyed fascism.” (Gordon Pirie, Journal of Modern Italian Studies, Vol. 22 (3), June, 2017)
“Fernando Esposito’s book explores the centrality of aviation to inter-war fascist ideology. … It is a valuable addition to studies on fascism and aviation, and, more broadly, will also be of interest to readers looking for sophisticated analyses of the interplay between technology and ideology.” (W. Zaidi, English Historical Review, Vol. 132 (556), June, 2017)
"In its fascinating investigation of the cult of aviation under Mussolini and Hitler, Fascism, Aviation and Mythic Modernity demonstrates the extraordinary synthesis of technological hypermodernity with heroic palingenetic myth which pervaded the two regimes. Its blend of impeccable scholarship with sophisticated conceptualization should convince even the most blinkered 'empiricists' that, far from being anti-modern, inter-war fascism represented in its own way a profoundly modernist response to the crisis of liberal capitalist civilization." Professor Roger Griffin, Oxford Brookes University, UK"Aviation offered the last great new metaphor for rethinking the world. From Brescia's air meet in 1909, which both Franz Kafka and Gabriele d'Annunzio attended, to the 'right stuff' of the Apollo astronauts in 1969, flight reenchanted possibility and direction, reinserted danger, and revalidated authority. As Fernando Esposito shows in this enormously learned and accomplished study, flight paths enabled modern myth-making, but they veered toward fascism."- Peter Fritzsche, Professor of History, University of Illinois, USA
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Fernando Esposito is Lecturer at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Fascism, Aviation and Mythical Modernity
Authors: Fernando Esposito
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137362995
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Fernando Esposito 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-36298-8Published: 30 September 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-36299-5Published: 29 September 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 419
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political History, Political Science, European History, History of Germany and Central Europe, History of Italy, History of Military