The sacralization of politics in fascist Italy
- D. Roberts, E. Gentile, K. Botsford
- History
- 1996
Introduction: in search of a civil religion the holy militia the fatherland dons the black shirt the archangel of this world the liturgy of collective harmony the temples of the faith Italy's new god.
Nothing But History: Reconstruction and Extremity after Metaphysics
- D. Roberts
- Philosophy, Art
- 9 March 2007
Surveying two centuries of philosophical writing, this text offers a guide to the philosophy of history before the recent challenges associated with deconstructive postmodernism. The book then argues…
Tory Paternalism and Social Reform in Early Victorian England
- D. Roberts
- History
- 1958
MUCH has been written about the theories and principles of Tory paternalism in England, but little has been said about its practice. Samuel Taylor Coleridge in his later writings gave eloquent and…
Benedetto Croce and the uses of historicism
- D. Roberts
- Philosophy
- 1987
POSTMODERNISM, SOCIAL SCIENCE, AND HISTORY: RETURNING TO AN UNFINISHED AGENDA
- D. Roberts
- Art
- 1 March 2017
Recognizing that the vogue of postmodernism has passed, Simon Susen seeks to assess whatever enduring impact it may have had on the social sciences, including historiography. Indeed, the postmodern…
The syndicalist tradition and Italian fascism
- D. Roberts
- Art
- 1979
This study focuses on the syndicalist intellectual tradition, which began as a revisionist form of Marxism, then gradually evolved into a kind of nationalist corporatism--the most important…
‘Political Religion’ and the Totalitarian Departures of Inter-war Europe: On the Uses and Disadvantages of an Analytical Category
- D. Roberts
- Political ScienceContemporary European History
- 29 September 2009
Abstract This article seeks to clarify the uses and disadvantages of the concept of ‘political religion’, which has recently returned to currency, especially to account for the liturgy and the sense…
The Stakes of Misreading : Hayden White, Carlo Ginzburg, and the Crocean Legacy
- D. Roberts
- Philosophy
- 2005
Transatlantic Fascism: Ideology, Violence, and the Sacred in Argentina and Italy, 1919–1945
- D. Roberts
- History
- 1 January 2011
how a legend can be true, and a teacher might respond with a clever answer. One is struck by the large number of key terms that appear in quotes, obviously to alert the reader that they should not be…
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