Emilio Gentile
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Emilio Gentile is an Italian
historian specializing in the ideology and culture of fascism
. Gentile is considered one of Italy's foremost cultural historians of fascist ideology. He is a student of Renzo De Felice
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Gentile is a professor at the Sapienza University of Rome. He considers fascism as a form of political religion
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Italy
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historian specializing in the ideology and culture of fascism
Fascism
Fascism is a radical authoritarian nationalist political ideology. Fascists seek to rejuvenate their nation based on commitment to the national community as an organic entity, in which individuals are bound together in national identity by suprapersonal connections of ancestry, culture, and blood...
. Gentile is considered one of Italy's foremost cultural historians of fascist ideology. He is a student of Renzo De Felice
Renzo De Felice
Renzo De Felice was an Italian historian, who specialized in the Fascist era.-Biography:He was born in Rieti and studied under Federico Chabod and Delio Cantimori at the University of Naples. During his time as student, De Felice was a member of the Italian Communist Party...
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Gentile is a professor at the Sapienza University of Rome. He considers fascism as a form of political religion
Political religion
The theory of political religion concerns governmental ideologies whose cultural and spiritual aspect is so strong that it takes an overwhelming hold of peoples lives that can be only considered as religious...
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Works
- Il culto del littorio. La sacralizzazione della politica nell' Italia fascista. Rome/Bari. 1993
- English translation: The Sacralization of Politics in Fascist Italy, 1996, Harvard University PressHarvard University PressHarvard University Press is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing. In 2005, it published 220 new titles. It is a member of the Association of American University Presses. Its current director is William P...
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- English translation: The Sacralization of Politics in Fascist Italy, 1996, Harvard University Press
- Le religioni della politica. Fra democrazie e totalitarismi. Laterza, Rome 2001
- English translation: Politics as Religion, University Presses of CA (3 July 2006)
- La democrazia di Dio. La religione americana nell'era dell'impero e del terrore. 2nd ed., 2006
- Il fascismo in tre capitoli. 2006
- Fascismo. Storia e interpretazione. Rome/Bari. 2002
- La Grande Italia. Il mito della nazione nel XX secolo. 2006
- Il mito dello Stato nuovo. Dal radicalismo nazionale al fascismo. 2002
- Le origini dell'Italia contemporanea. L'età giolittiana. 2003
- Renzo De Felice. Lo storico e il personaggio. 2003
- Storia del partito fascista. 1919-1922. Movimento e milizia. 1989
- Il fascino del persecutore. George Mosse e i totalitarismi. Carocci. 2007