{"product_id":"the-historic-imaginary-claudio-fogu-9780802087645","title":"The Historic Imaginary: Politics of History in Fascist Italy","description":"\u003cp\u003eFocusing on both ritual and mass-visual representations of history in 1920s and 1930s Italy, \u003ci\u003eThe Historic Imaginary\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClaudio 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,\" and that its institutionalization constituted a key point of intersection between the fascist aesthetization and sacralization of politics. The author finally claims that his study of fascist historic culture opens the way to an understanding and re-evaluation of the historical relationship between the modernist critique of historical consciousness and the rise of post-modernist forms of temporality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Claudio Fogu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0802087647\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802087645\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.28lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.52h x 6.10w x 1.06d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2004 pg. 37","brand":"Claudio Fogu","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065134592255,"sku":"9780802087645","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b0dfdeb2-d66b-40d4-a267-2d6b9308c710.jpg?v=1768673222","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-historic-imaginary-claudio-fogu-9780802087645","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}