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Walter Benjamin's political phenomenology of fascism -- Albert Camus and the warning of the Nihilist temptation -- Ernst Jünger: it is not what we are fighting for, but how we fight -- Carl Schmitt's community: friends against enemies -- Nietzsche and Heidegger: from Nihilism to community of experience -- The Fascist Order.

Prologue : the Promethean passion of modernity -- Fom Rousseau to Tocqueville : Janus face of modernity -- 1848 : "We are sitting on a volcano" -- From Marx to Lenin : a red future -- Anarchism, nihilism, racism -- Foucault and beyond -- Epilogue : the end of modernity?

This book examines the role of messianism in Zionist ideology from the birth of the movement through to the present. Is shows how messianism is not just a religious or philosophical term but a very tangible political practice which€has shaped Israeli identity.

The ambivalent & eclectic views of French intellectual Georges Sorel (1847-1922) are examined. Sorel supported both extremes of fascism & communism, & influenced thinkers in both camps. Rather than reporting history's progression through dialectic, Sorel sought to undermine the political status quo. He supported the renewal of myths in history, & invented a modern myth for the decaying Europe, clearly distinct from utopian ideology. Sorel's political philosophy drew on the ideas of such thinkers as Pierre-Joseph Proudhon & Friedrich Nietzsche. In his view, producers' morality was marked by authenticity & the beginning of a new heroic era, whereas consumers' morality was marked by decadence & the dying legacy of the Enlightenment. Sorel's thought has been described as a Nietzschean form of Marxism; his departures from orthodox Marxist theory are detailed. Violence in the general strike, revolutionary syndicalism, & violent revolution were incorporated into the Sorelian philosophy of history. J. Sadler