Mussolini's Intellectuals: Fascist Social and Political Thought

Fascism has traditionally been characterized as irrational and anti-intellectual, finding expression exclusively as a cluster of myths, emotions, instincts, and hatreds. This intellectual history of Italian Fascism—the product of four decades of work by one of the leading experts on the subject in the English-speaking world—provides an alternative account. A. James Gregor argues that Italian Fascism may have been a flawed system of belief, but it was neither more nor less irrational than ot...