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The aesthetics of hate : far-right intellectuals, antisemitism, and gender in 1930s France
- Title
- The aesthetics of hate : far-right intellectuals, antisemitism, and gender in 1930s France / Sandrine Sanos.
- Author
- Sanos, Sandrine
- Publication
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2013]
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- Description
- xi, 369 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- The Aesthetics of Hate examines the writings of a motley collection of interwar far-right French intellectuals, showing that they defined Frenchness in racial, gendered, and sexual terms.
- In works infused with rhetorics of abjection, disgust, and dissolution, such writers as Maulnier, Brasillach, Céline, and Blanchot imagined the nation through figures deemed illegitimate or inferior-Jews, colonial subjects, homosexuals, women. Sanos argues that these intellectuals offered an "aesthetics of hate," reinventing a language of far-right nationalism by appealing to the realm of beauty and the sublime for political solutions.
- By acknowledging the constitutive relationship of antisemitism and colonial racism at the heart of these canonical writers' nationalism, this book makes us rethink how aesthetics and politics function, how race is imagined and defined, how gender structured far-right thought, and how we conceive of French intellectual life and fascism.
- Alternative Title
- Far-right intellectuals, antisemitism, and gender in 1930s France
- Subject
- Right-wing extremists > France > History > 20th century
- Radicalism > France > History > 20th century
- Antisemitism > France > History > 20th century
- Masculinity > France > History > 20th century
- Fascist aesthetics > France > History > 20th century
- Politics and literature > France > History > 20th century
- France > Intellectual life > 20th century
- France > Politics and government > 1914-1940
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-354) and index.
- Contents
- "The crisis is in man" : the nation, the self, and cultural politics in the 1930s -- A genealogy of the far-right -- "Will we get out of French abjection?" : the politics and aesthetics insurgency of the young new right -- The absent author : Maurice Blanchot and the subjection of politics -- "Negroid Jews against white men" : Louis-Ferdinand Céline and the politics of literature -- The race of fascism : Je suis partout, race, and culture.
- Call Number
- JFE 13-7431
- ISBN
- 9780804774574 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0804774579 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2012014036
- 40021424517
- OCLC
- 787508513
- Author
- Sanos, Sandrine, author.
- Title
- The aesthetics of hate : far-right intellectuals, antisemitism, and gender in 1930s France / Sandrine Sanos.
- Publisher
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2013]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-354) and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40021424517
- Research Call Number
- JFE 13-7431