July 30, 2009

Chapter: I am no longer human. I am a Titan. A god!

The first chapter of Roger Griffin's The Fascist Century is available online:

'"I am no longer human. I am a Titan. A god!": The Fascist Quest to Regenerate Time: Modernity under the New Order: The Fascist Project for Managing the Future' (pp. 3-23).

This chapter is based on the written-up version of a talk given in November 1998 at the Institute of Historical Research as part of the seminar series Modern Italian History: 19th and 20th Centuries organized by Carl Levy. Read more...

July 12, 2009

Conference paper: A New "New Consensus" on the Definition of Fascism

The paper presented by Roger Griffin at the conference "Europe's Radical Right and World War II" on 10 July 2009:

A new "new consensus" on the definition of fascism? or is the new consensus getting "old" and are we witnessing "a new wave" in the comparative study of extremism? (PDF)

For more info on the conference, check the web-site of Alfred Krupp Science College. Read more...

July 02, 2009

Conference paper: Lingua Quarti Imperii

Roger Griffin's paper '"Lingua Quarti Imperii": The Euphemistic Tradition of the Extreme Right', presented at the International Symposium on the Language of Far-right Movements "Speaking with Forked Tongues: The Rhetoric of Right-Wing Extremism Today".

Click here to view or download the paper in PDF.

For more info on the Symposium, check the blog "Speaking With Forked Tongues". Read more...