Emilio Gentile

Emilio Gentile ( spelling sporadically Emile, born 1946 ) is an Italian historian and pioneer of research on fascism.

Life

Gentile is a professor at the University La Sapienza in Rome. As fascism researcher, he coined the term palingenesis that describes fascism in its ideological form as a political religion. For his empirical- historical research on the religioni della politica in the 20th century, he received the 2003 Hans- Sigrist Prize from the University of Bern.

Fascism as a Political Religion

Gentile determined fascism in a double arrangement "political religion" and as part of group of totalitarianism. After that, Sven Reichardt to the understanding of Gentile, " the fascists created a belief in the nation, the Duce and the party, which political religion as the basis of the fascist culture was. It was a military from his perspective and revolutionary totalitarianism, who represented the myths and values ​​of a palingenetic ideology and the sacralized forms of political religion supposed to create a new man. Italian fascism totalitarianism have this set first in the world, with state and party fused together. "

Gentile's definition of fascism

In the 1990s, developed a Gentile ten points comprehensive definition of fascism, which then assigned the determining characteristics of an organizational, a cultural and an institutional dimension:

" The definition that I propose is based on three mutually connected set dimensions: it is the organizational concerning the social composition, structure, style and the methods of struggle of the party, the cultural in which it comes to the human image and the ideas of mass and politics goes, and finally to the institutional dimension, which means that the complex structures and relationships, which establish the fascist regime. "

Gentile's definition is described in detail under the term fascism theories.

Works

  • Il culto del littorio. La politica della sacralizzazione nell ' Italia fascista. Rome / Bari. 1993 English Translation: The Sacralization of Politics in Fascist Italy, 1996, Harvard University Press, hup.harvard.edu
  • German translation: The sacralization of politics. In: Hans Maier ( ed.): Paths in the violence. The modern political religions. Frankfurt / Main 2000
  • English Translation: Politics as Religion, University Presses of CA ( 3 July 2006)

Papers

  • Fascism. A definition for orientation. Translated from English by Joachim Kalka. In: middle 36, Issue 1, March 2007
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