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To Fight Against This Age

Audiobook
Nonfiction: Social Science; Political
Unabridged   3.5 hour(s)
Publication date: 01/23/2018

To Fight Against This Age

On Fascism and Humanism

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Audio CD ISBN:9781684411627
Digital Download ISBN:9781684411634

Summary

An international bestseller, To Fight Against This Age consists of two beautifully written, cogent, and urgent essays about the rise of fascism and the ways in which we can combat it.

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Product Description

In "The Eternal Return of Fascism," Rob Riemen explores the theoretical weakness of fascism, which depends on a politics of resentment, the incitement of anger and fear, xenophobia, the need for scapegoats, and its hatred of the life of the mind. He draws on history and philosophy as well as the essays and novels of Thomas Mann and Albert Camus to explain the global resurgence of fascism, often disguised by its false promises of ushering in freedom and greatness.

Riemen's own response to what he sees as the spiritual crisis of our age is articulated in "The Return of Europa," a moving story about the meaning of European humanism with its universal values of truth, beauty, justice, and love for life―values that are the origin and basis of a democratic civilization.

To Fight Against This Age is as timely as it is timeless, to be read by those who want to understand and change the world in which they live.

Reviews/Praise

"Piercing....[Riemen's] erudite essays add an enriching element to the ongoing conversation of a contentious political moment."—Publishers Weekly

"An extremely relevant, urgent call to revive true democracy and acknowledge the perils of fascist ideology." —Kirkus

Author Bio

Rob Riemen, an essayist and cultural philosopher, is founder of the Nexus Institute, an international center devoted to intellectual reflection and to inspiring Western cultural and philosophical debate. He lives in the Netherlands.