This collection brings together diverse short pieces such as book reviews, interviews, op-eds, historical and literary-critical articles, and reports for monitoring organizations. Drawing on Matthew Feldman’s experience as literary scholar, intellectual historian, and political consultant, it follows the development of different forms of radicalism, especially far-right movements, fascist ideology, and terrorism during the “long twentieth century.” Using the examples of intellectuals such as Samuel Beckett and Albert Camus, scholars such as the Holocaust historian Detlef Mühlberger, as well as politicians such as Nick Griffin or Donald Trump, Subjects and Occasions collects texts written over more than a generation . Feldman draws connections between academic and practical knowledge, as he strives to enhance public understanding and sounding a call for civil courage needed to maintain the intrinsic value of each human life.
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Matthew Feldman
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).
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Karim Mamdani
Karim Mamdani is an independent scholar.
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Kate Yanduganova
Kate Yanduganova is an editor and translator, liaising between German, English, and Russian. Among scholarly interests are twentieth-century European Jewish philosophy and midrash, as well as the history of antisemitism.
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| Edited by | Karim Mamdani |
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| Introduction by | Kate Yanduganova |
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446
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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
An urgent voice for our times, Feldman writes with a warm intelligence and indefatigable human spirt. This landmark collection is a work of tremendous intellectual power: it is also a necessary call to action.
—Jeannette Baxter, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature, Anglia Ruskin University, UK
These writings would benefit not only the contemporary student and scholar […], but also the cultivated and curious readers with a wish of understanding the threat on democracy and justice coming from the contemporary far right in all its hues.
—Dr Erika Mihálycsa, Lecturer in Language and Literature, Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania
Matthew Feldman has dedicated his career to analyzing and evaluating the radical right as a means by which to understand the resurgence of violent ideology across the world. […] Readers of these volumes will find their good fortune in having such a constant guide across some very troubling and contested terrain.
—Prof. Mark Byron, University of Sydney, Australia
… a career’s worth of articles and reviews which […] demonstrates—if indirectly—the value, and indeed the necessity, of liberal education and the “soft” skills it fosters In a world where proponents of hate capitalize on fear and use misinformation to incite and even weaponize that fear. Feldman’s work offers not only a greater understanding of the radical right, but a playbook for countering it.
—Prof. Todd Martin, Huntington University, USA
Matthew Feldman is one of the leading experts in far-right movements, both of today and in modern history. It is exciting to see that, in these two volumes, his short-form writings have been presented together for the first time. Feldman is one of the principal thinkers of our day.
—Dr Helen Paynter, Director, Centre for the Study of Bible and Violence, UK
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