Apolitìaand Tradition in Julius Evola as Reaction to Nihilism

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 258-273
Author(s):  
Elisabetta Cassina Wolff
Keyword(s):  
Modern Society ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
Young Generation ◽  
Traditional Values ◽  
Political Role ◽  
Ideological Influence ◽  
Post War ◽  
Intellectual Production ◽  
Second World

This article deals with the figure of Julius Evola, philosopher and well-known freelance political commentator both during and after Italy’s Fascist dictatorship. My analysis of his intellectual production and political role in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s is a case study that focuses on both continuity and discontinuity of ideological issues in the crucial historical period between the Fascist regime and the establishment of neo-fascism in post-war Italy. Special attention will be paid to unchanging elements in Evola’s philosophy, such as criticism of modern society, rejection of faith in progress, reference to traditional values as reaction to nihilism and belief in the existence of a spiritual hierarchy. A central issue is the ideological influence that Evola exercised on a young generation of neo-fascists in Italy after the Second World War, based on the intention of offering them new rules of conduct in a post-nihilist world. It is exactly this phenomenon that enables us to put in question the declaredapolitìaof Evola.

An Ordinary Polish Town: The Homecoming of Holocaust Survivors to Kalisz in the Immediate Aftermath of the War

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-112
Author(s):  
Lukasz Krzyzanowski
Keyword(s):  
Holocaust Survivors ◽  
Communal Life ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
Industrial Town ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Economic Reality ◽  
Post War ◽  
Anti Jewish ◽  
Second World

The rapidly growing historiography on the aftermath of the Holocaust in Poland has focused primarily on post-war anti-Semitism. Scholars have traditionally concentrated on the post-war death, community destruction and emigration of Holocaust survivors rather than their attempts to return to their former homes. This article explores who these survivors were and what their return was like. Using the medium-sized industrial town of Kalisz in western Poland as a case study, the article argues that the composition of survivors' communities and the difficulty of adapting to the new economic reality, together with the already well-researched anti-Jewish violence, played a significant role in preventing a revival of Jewish communal life in provincial Poland in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War.

scholarly journals THE CONCEPT OF RISALAT AND ITS HISTORICAL, POLITICAL AND IDEOLOGICAL ROLE

2020 ◽  
pp. 86-92
Author(s):  
Farrukh Kushbayev
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Method ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
Young Generation ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Scientific Heritage ◽  
Lexical Meaning ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ideological Influence

The main goal of the article is to give a clearer picture of the life of the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) and his activities to spread the idea of monotheism based on the verses of the Koran. In particular, by objectively illuminating the historical essence of the formation of medieval Arab society during the period of rising, to prevent the emergence of misconceptions about Islam and its prophet in the minds of the modern young generation. The article first explains the lexical meaning of the term “risolat (mission)”, and then analyzes the ideological influence of this concept as a historical process on the political life of the Arab peoples and peoples of the world. In particular, dictionaries reveal the comparative meaning and relevance of this word, as well as its use in the Quran, the main source of Islam. In academic and traditional translations and interpretations of the meanings of the Koran into other languages, in particular Uzbek, Russian and Eng., the word “messenger” is also explained on the basis of individual comparisons - using the method of comparative analysis. At the same time, the radical changes that took place in the social and cultural life of people as a result of the mission that took place in medieval Arab society were analyzed based on a comparative method using historical facts and verses from the Koran. The article also emphasizes the need to rely on an objective approach to research in the study of the history and culture of Islam. Also, the article lists the author’s research on this topic, carried out during his scientific research. At the same time, it explains in detail with the help of examples of how the verses sent at the beginning of Islam influenced the way of life of people. It also reveals the scientific and analytical study of a separate historical period of Islam - the period of the life of the Prophet. In the final part of the article, a conclusion is made about the importance of the primary sources and the scientific heritage of our scientists in the study and coverage of historical facts.

The Cold War and the welfare state in divided Korea and Germany

2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 258-275
Author(s):  
Herbert Obinger ◽  
Shinyong Lee
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
Causal Mechanisms ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Second World ◽  
The Welfare State

Several scholars have hypothesized that the unprecedented expansion of the welfare state during the immediate post-war decades was to some degree related to fierce regime competition in the bipolar world that emerged in the aftermath of the Second World War. This paper uses the case study method to provide a more nuanced analysis of the causal mechanisms linking the Cold War and the welfare state. Focussing on Germany and Korea, which in methodological terms can be regarded as most-likely cases, we examine whether and, if so, to what extent the Cold War rivalry has influenced national social policy development in these divided countries. We argue that two causal mechanisms, competition and demarcation, were important in this respect. Both mechanisms were closely related to the need of governments to enhance regime legitimacy in a period of military tension and political conflict.

Employer Agency and Migration Networks in Post-War Sweden: The Case of Manufacturing Companies and Migrant Workers in Västmanland County

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 187-210
Author(s):  
Olle Jansson
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Migration Networks ◽  
International Labour Migration ◽  
Place Of Origin ◽  
Post War ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Second World

This article investigates the influence and agency of employers for international labour migration through a case study on networks and migration to a county in Sweden in the decades after the end of the Second World War. Earlier research has focused on the supply-side of networks, such as contacts between migrants and prospective migrants and their place of origin, and how such relations led to cumulative effects, with increased migration over time. This article shows how employers in Västmanland County were, sometimes with the help of government agencies, able to solve their labour requirements through the active creation of migration networks. The article contributes to a deeper understanding of the functions of networks for international migration through developments on the demand-side of labour markets.

The power struggle of French intellectuals at the end of the Second World War: A study in the sociology of ideas

2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 415-435 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Baert
Keyword(s):  
Modern Society ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Individual Responsibility ◽  
World War ◽  
Power Struggles ◽  
Jean Paul ◽  
Sociology Of Ideas ◽  
Post War ◽  
French Nation ◽  
Second World

This article is one of the first sociological explorations of power struggles between intellectuals where matters of life and death are literally at stake. It counters the prevailing tendency within sociology to study intellectuals within confined academic institutions where power struggles are limited to matters of symbolic and institutional recognition. This study explores the conflict between collaborationist and Resistance intellectuals at the end of the Second World War in France, and it focuses in particular on the purge of collaborationist intellectuals which culminated in several high profile trials. This article shows that the arguments and meta-arguments put forward in these trials led to broader intellectual debates outside the courtroom. These debates not only centred on the notion of the writer’s responsibility, but also dealt with anxieties about the disintegrative forces of modern society. Whereas collaborationist intellectuals portrayed their writing as either separate from politics or rescuing a defunct or degenerate nation, Resistance intellectuals such as Jean-Paul Sartre were keen to portray collaborators as outsiders, both socially and sexually, lacking in social integration and subservient to a strong external force. The Resistance intellectuals saw the notion of individual responsibility not as antithetical but as integral to the remaking of the French nation, and this concept would become the cornerstone of the reshaping of the intellectual landscape in the post-war era in France.

scholarly journals Beyond War Crimes: Denazification, ‘Obnoxious’ Germans and US Policy in Franco's Spain after the Second World War

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 455-478 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAVID A. MESSENGER
Keyword(s):  
War Crimes ◽  
The United States ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Nazi Party ◽  
World War ◽  
The Us ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Post War ◽  
Second World

AbstractThis work links the western Allies’ policy of denazification in occupied Germany to efforts to repatriate German intelligence agents and Nazi Party officials – so-called ‘obnoxious’ Germans – from the neutral states of Europe after the Second World War. Once on German soil, these individuals would be subject to internment and investigation as outlined in occupation policy. Using the situation in Franco's Spain as a case study, the article argues that new ideas of neutrality following the war and a strong commitment to the concept of denazification led to the creation of the repatriation policy, especially within the United States. Repatriation was also a way to measure the extent to which Franco's Spain accepted the Allied victory and the defeat of Nazism and fascism. The US perception was that the continued presence of individual Nazis meant the continued influence of Nazism itself. Spain responded half-heartedly, at best. Despite the fact that in terms of numbers repatriated the policy was a failure, the Spanish example demonstrates that the attempted repatriation of ‘obnoxious’ Germans from neutral Europe, although overlooked, was significant not only as part of the immediate post-war settlement but also in its bearing on US ideas about Nazism, security and perceived collaboration of neutral states like Spain.

National Identity, Rugby Union and Notions of Ireland and the ‘Irish’

2005 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Maguire ◽  
Jason Tuck
Keyword(s):  
Rugby Union ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Specific Reference ◽  
World War ◽  
Irish Identity ◽  
English Identity ◽  
Post War ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Second World

This paper seeks to examine issues of identity and national habitus from an Eliasian perspective. In doing so, it casts critically light on the making of Irish identity in the post-Second World War period. Specific reference is given to one case study, namely the sport of rugby union. This sport does appear to have been significantly connected to the national habitus of Ireland during the post-war period (especially since the 1960s) and creates a highly visible, ‘glocal’, arena for the testing of ‘Irish’ and ‘British/English’ identity. This case study highlights how contested notions of Irish identity are, and how, in this post-war period, a less deferential and more assertive Irish habitus was and is evident relative to their former colonial masters, the English. In that sense, instead of exhibiting a sense of group disgrace, the Irish now claim a widening field of identification and a more confident group charisma.

Squatting: The Fight for Decent Shelter, 1970s–1980s

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-50
Author(s):  
John Marsland
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Housing Policies ◽  
The West ◽  
The World ◽  
Housing Needs ◽  
Post War ◽  
Second World

During the twenty years after the Second World War, housing began to be seen as a basic right among many in the west, and the British welfare state included many policies and provisions to provide decent shelter for its citizens. This article focuses on the period circa 1968–85, because this was a time in England when the lack of affordable, secure-tenured housing reached a crisis level at the same time that central and local governmental housing policies received wider scrutiny for their ineffectiveness. My argument is that despite post-war laws and rhetoric, many Britons lived through a housing disaster and for many the most rational way they could solve their housing needs was to exploit loopholes in the law (as well as to break them out right). While the main focus of the article is on young British squatters, there is scope for transnational comparison. Squatters in other parts of the world looked to their example to address the housing needs in their own countries, especially as privatization of public services spread globally in the 1980s and 1990s. Dutch, Spanish, German and American squatters were involved in a symbiotic exchange of ideas and sometimes people with the British squatters and each other, and practices and rhetoric from one place were quickly adopted or rejected based on the success or failure in each place.

Somethin’ about Scandinavia: Danish Shorts on the Post-war International Scene

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Claire Thomson
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
International Collaboration ◽  
Marshall Plan ◽  
The Third ◽  
Animated Film ◽  
International Audience ◽  
Post War ◽  
Nordic Cooperation

Building on the picture of post-war Anglo-Danish documentary collaboration established in the previous chapter, this chapter examines three cases of international collaboration in which Dansk Kulturfilm and Ministeriernes Filmudvalg were involved in the late 1940s and 1950s. They Guide You Across (Ingolf Boisen, 1949) was commissioned to showcase Scandinavian cooperation in the realm of aviation (SAS) and was adopted by the newly-established United Nations Film Board. The complexities of this film’s production, funding and distribution are illustrative of the activities of the UN Film Board in its first years of operation. The second case study considers Alle mine Skibe (All My Ships, Theodor Christensen, 1951) as an example of a film commissioned and funded under the auspices of the Marshall Plan. This US initiative sponsored informational films across Europe, emphasising national solutions to post-war reconstruction. The third case study, Bent Barfod’s animated film Noget om Norden (Somethin’ about Scandinavia, 1956) explains Nordic cooperation for an international audience, but ironically exposed some gaps in inter-Nordic collaboration in the realm of film.

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