What is Fascism | Part 2

The second part of the lecture at LUMS based on Richard Wolin's book "The Seduction of Unreason" on how counter-enlightenment ideas formed the basis of the fascist reaction to modernity. And how these ideas in turn laid the foundation for much of existential and post-modernist ideas.

Note: This Lecture was recorded in Sep. 2019, So Any Reference to Events & News is not to be confused with Recent ones.
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[Nomo_Popo]

That rally in Paris 68 onward and going back to Nietsche comes across like a c i a color revolution. Not saying that's what it was, but that's one hell of a 180.
Anyway, glad someone turned me on to this channel. Really enjoying this lecture and look forward to learning from more. Thanks!

[AtlantaBill]

I was spellbound by the two parts of your lecture on fascism. Some would say you strayed from the topic, but I would say that you did an heroic job of summarizing its philosophical history.

[hansfrankfurter]

Better than 99% of western professors, thanks prof!

[zacoolm]

An amazing lecture! Thank you so much for your knowledge and

[garrettramirez]

Why are the English and American Revolutions always left out of these discussions?

[PhilosophicalBachelor]

Thank you. Both of your videos on fascism are really interesting, a veritable whirlwind tour of intellectual western history.

What however I wish to problematise is the idea or implicit assumption that one's philosophical efforts need necessarily be reflected in one's actions. One would think so but it isn't necessary. We are human after all, despite our great ideals/ideas [e.g. Malinowski].

Secondly, I don't quite get why humanism is to blame for fascism since it seems rather a counter to it. You only began speaking of it at the tail end and perhaps didn't have enough time to develop the argument, though if you mean that as a result of the Enlightenment that fascism arose, lumping together hyper-rationality and humanism as fruits of the Enlightenment, I can see the link though I am not sure that it is not throwing the baby [liberal democratic humanism] out with the bathwater [hyper-rationality].

Lastly, it would have been great to have heard about how colonisation is itself fascistic given that you are teaching in Pakistan but I suppose that in itself would require its own lecture if not lecture series. Thank you nonetheless, I enjoyed your lecture. Your delivery is invigorating and your breadth of knowledge, from philosophy to the Babylonians to astronomy, inspiring.

[davidchimes]

I thoroughly enjoyed this lecture, and wish I had a Philosophy teacher as engaging and thought provoking as you, but feel the need to add a few things about fascism that you seem to gloss over (perhaps due to time constraints).

"Fascism is totalitarianism." To say it has a hatred of liberalism and the accompanying belief that delineating private and public spheres of life is the most paramount social question is true, but insufficient to understanding what it is.

To quote Mousolini (and "neo Hegelian" philosopher and minister of education in fascist Italy, Giovannie Gentile).

" The Fascist conception of the State is all
embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values
can exist, much less have value. Thus understood,
Fascism, is totalitarian, and the Fascist State — a
synthesis and a unit inclusive of all values —
interprets, develops, and potentates the whole life of a
people."

It's not just the French philosophers who were disturbed by the totalitarianism and saw the Bolshevik Soviet State as roughly an equivalent evil, Hannah Arendt wrote a whole book about it entitled The Origins of Totalitarianism linking the praxis of fascist states to the USSR and it's puppet governments. I think you should have included what the fascist states did internally (and said they would do, often in philosophical writing).

I leave a link to the 1932 essay I quote, The Doctrine of Fascism, here as well as The Origins of Totalitarianism for those interested.

[sadaf]

hi, I can't find your lecture series of political philosophy in English from 2019. Please could you direct me to them.

[ulyanov]

Tad bit dissapointed by the lack of materialist analysis...