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Mabel Berezin, Making the Fascist Self: The Political Culture of Interwar Italy.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 1999

David Horn
Affiliation:
Cambridge University Press

Abstract

Berezin's study in historical sociology takes as its starting point an Italian present marked by a resurgence of fascism and by renewed contests for the symbolic space of the piazza. Confident that a new understanding of the “old” fascism can have contemporary social and political relevance, Berezin examines interwar efforts to construct “fascist identities” by fusing public and private selves. In a book that engages political philosophy and the anthropology of ritual, Berezin focuses our attention on public spectacle, “the favored expressive vehicle of the fascist identity project” (p. 5).

Type
Book Review
Copyright
© 1999 Society for Comparative Study of Society and History

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