Contents
Literature, Culture, Fascism 3
PART ONE: THE FATHERS OF FRENCH LITERARY FASCISM 17
The Use and Abuse of Culture: Maurice Barrès and the Ideology of the Collective Subject 19
Cultural and Racial Typologies 27
The Aesthetics of the Collective Subject 31
The Beautiful Community: The Fascist Legacy of Charles Péguy 42
Antimodernism and the Spiritualization of History 52
The Nation as Artwork: Charles Maurras and the Classical Origins of French Literary Fascism 71
Integral Nationalism, Anti-Semitism, and the Aesthetic Power of the Monarch 87
PART TWO: LITERARY FASCISTS 97
Fascism as Aesthetic Experience: Robert Brasillach and the Politics of Literature 99
Nationalism, Fascism, and the Defense of Literature 99
Fascist Joy and the Aestheticizing of Experience 114
The Fascist Imagined Community: The Myths of Europe and Totalitarian Man in Drieu la Rochelle 125
The Modernist Political Imagination 125
The Fascist Imagination and the Myth of Europe 136
Aesthetic Ideals and Collaborationist Politics 139
Literary Fascism and the Problem of Gender: The Aesthetics of the Body in Drieu la Rochelle 147
The Gender (s) of Fascism: Sartre, Adorno, Theweleit 147
The Fascist Aesthetics of the Body 158
The Trouble with Gender and the Ambivalence of Desire 164
Literary Anti-Semitism: The Poetics of Race in Drumont and Céline 171
The Aesthetic Totalization of the Other 171
Style and Race 180
The Politics of Language and the Poetics of Race 186
The Art of Anti-Semitic Rage: Lucien Rebatet's Aesthetics of Violence 196
Aesthetic Sensibility and Anti-Semitism 196
The Aesthetic Final Solution 207
A Literary Fascism beyond Fascism: Thierry Maulnier and the Ideology of Culture 222
Classicism, Humanism, Fascism 223
Tragedy, Violence, and the National Revolution 229
The Spirtitual Revolution and the Ideal of Culture 235
Literary Fascism and the Case of Paul de Man 248
Index 295