Fall 2019

Fascism

Listed in: Political Science, as POSC-205

Faculty

Thomas L. Dumm (Section 01)

Description

This course is an exploration of the political form of the modern state known as fascism. We will examine fascism’s roots in political economy, war, ascriptive group identity, legislative and executive forms, political parties, and social movements, paying special attention to how it has been theorized as it emerged during the twentieth century in Europe, and its current resurgence as an idea and practice in Europe and the United States in the twenty first. Among the authors we may read will be Hannah Arendt, Theodor Adorno, Karl Polanyi, Ernst Cassirer, Franz Neumann, Carl Schmitt, Adolf Hitler, Walter Benjamin, Filippo Marinetti, Richard Hofstadter, Sheldon Wolin, Steven Bannon, Judith Butler, and William Connolly.

Fall semester. Professor Dumm.

POSC 205 - L/D

Section 01
Tu 02:30 PM - 03:50 PM OCTA 200
Th 02:30 PM - 03:50 PM OCTA 200

This is preliminary information about books for this course. Please contact your instructor or the Academic Coordinator for the department, before attempting to purchase these books.

ISBN Title Publisher Author(s) Comment Book Store Price
Aspirational Fascism: The Struggle for Multifaceted Democracy under Trumpism University of Minnesota Press William E. Connolly Amherst Books TBD
The Origins of Totalitarianism Nabu Press 2011 Hannah Arendt Amherst Books TBD
Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America Penguin Books Nancy MacLean Amherst Books TBD
Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America Harvard University Press Kathleen Belew Amherst Books TBD
The crisis of parliamentary democracy MIT Press Carl Schmitt Amherst Books TBD
On tyranny : twenty lessons from the twentieth century Tim Duggan Books Timothy Snyder Amherst Books TBD

These books are available locally at Amherst Books.

Offerings

2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2017, Fall 2019