Apprentice’s Sorcerer, The: Liberal Tradition And Fascism

Ishay Landa, Ph.D. (2004) in History, Ben-Gurion University, Israel, is Visiting Senior Lecturer of History at the Israeli Open University. He has published on Nietzscheanism, Marxism, political theory and popular culture, including The Overman in the Marketplace (Lexington, 2007).

Far from being diametrically opposed, this provocative book convincingly argues that Fascism is indelibly linked to the liberal tradition.

Acknowledgements IntroductionWhat Do Words Matter? Preliminary Reflections on Fascism, Socialism, Liberalism and Semantics 1. The Liberal Split: Divorcing the Economic from the Political Liberalism and Democracy in the Longue Durée Putting Property under Locke and Key From Constant to Donoso Cortés Pareto: on Foxes and Musso-LionsEngels and Gumplowicz Outlining the Overthrow from Above 2. Liberal Economics, Fascist Politics: "A Wonderful Wedlock" Spengler: The "Will to Property" Hitler and Liberalism: a "Wonderful Harmony" of Politics and Economics Spengler and Hitler: the Bookworm Mistakes His Place After Fascism: J. S. Schapiro and the Illusive Death of the Dismal Science 3. Anti-Liberal Liberals-I (Moeller van den Bruck, Proudhon, Carlyle) The Bourgeois Spirit of the Germanic Ideology Outsiders-Insiders: Proudhon and Carlyle 4. Anti-Liberal Liberals-II (Schmitt, Sorel) Carl Schmitt: A Democratic Anti-Liberal? The Strange Case of Georges Sorel 5. Liberalism and Fascism between Myths and Reality I Liberal Myth No. 1: Fascism as Tyranny of the MajorityLiberal Myth No. 2: Collectivist Liberalism, Individualist Fascism? 6. Liberalism and Fascism between Myths and Reality II Liberal Myth No. 3: The Origins of the Fascist "Big Lie"Liberal Myth No. 4: Fascism as a Nationalistic Attack onEpilogueSub-Man, Underman, Untermensch:Fascism as an International Co-production References Index