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Truth and Modern Dictatorship

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

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The Epistemology of dictatorship! This expression couples terms which seem to be utter strangers to each other. How could a political régime which is an eminently practical, often violent, hard-striking thing be concerned with a science which is an essentially unpractical, introspective business of secluded and subtle contemplation?

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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1934

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References

page 279 note 1 Gentile, Giovanni, Origine e dottrina del Fascismo, pp. 3552, Roma, 1929.Google Scholar

page 279 note 2 Rosenberg, Alfred, Der Mythus des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts, pp. 22, 117, 139, 236237, 486493.Google Scholar