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<p>Focusing on both ritual and mass-visual representations of history in 1920s and 1930s Italy, <I>The Historic Imaginary</I> unveils how Italian Fascism sought to institutionalize a modernist culture of history. The study takes a new historicist and microhistorical approach to cultural-intellectual history, integrating theoretical tools of analysis acquired from visual-cultural studies, art history, linguistics, and reception theory in a sophisticated examination of visual modes of historical representation – from commemorations to monuments to exhibitions and mass-media – spanning the entire period of the Italian-fascist regime.</p><p>Claudio Fogu argues that the fascist historic imaginary was intellectually rooted in the actualist philosophy of history elaborated by Giovanni Gentile, culturally grounded in Latin-Catholic rhetorical codes, and aimed at overcoming both Marxist and liberal conceptions of the relationship between historical agency, representation, and consciousness. The book further proposes that this modernist vision of history was a core element of fascist ideology, encapsulated by the famous Mussolinian motto that "fascism makes history rather than writing it," a

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Author

Fogu, Claudio

Publisher

University of Toronto Press

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9781442681446

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Science, European History