Theories of Fascism

Undergraduate / Graduate

Course readings will be divided roughly into three modules: 1) classical theories of fascism, with particular attention to economic and psychoanalytic themes; 2) works that de-exceptionalize Nazi fascism by drawing parallels with other forms of collectively institutionalized imperial, racial, and sexual violence; 3) literature on the contemporary far-right resurgence as occasioned by reactionary potentials latent within liberal modernity.