Description: This collection gathers essays, reviews, interviews, and reports spanning over a generation, exploring radicalism--especially far-right movements, fascist ideology, and terrorism. It links scholarship and public engagement, highlighting civil courage and the value of every human life.
Brief description:
Professor Matthew Feldman is a specialist on fascist ideology and the far-right in Europe and the USA. He is the author or editor of more than 20 books, including three book-length studies, and more than 40 articles or academic book chapters. Published volumes include Clerical Fascism in Interwar Europe (Routledge, 2008), A Fascist Century (Palgrave, 2008), and, with Roger Griffin, the five-volume collection Fascism: Critical Concepts (Routledge, 2003). More recent volumes include Doublespeak: The Rhetoric of the Far-Right since 1945 (with Paul Jackson, 2014), The 'New Man' in Radical Right Ideology and Practice, 1919-1945 (with Jorge Dagnino and Paul Stocker, 2017), as well as the journal specials Far-right Populism and Lone Wolf Terrorism in Contemporary Europe (Democracy and Security, 2013) and The Ideologies and Ideologues of the Radical Right (Patterns of Prejudice, 2016). His most recent monograph, Ezra Pound's Fascist Propaganda, 1935-1945, appeared with Palgrave in 2013. He has published two collections of essays with Ibidem Press, Falsifying Beckett (2015) and Politics, Intellectuals, and Faith (2020).
Review Quotes: Lively and readable, the texts collected in these wide-ranging volumes use his archivally rich literary criticism to read modernist literature and contemporary culture alike. Feldman, unafraid to challenge lazy orthodoxies or to read even the most objectionable sources with the careful attention of a scholar, helps us to see the last century of writing and thought with a new sharpness.--Dr Alys Moody, Associate Professor of Literature, Bard College, USA