Book ID: CBB439605808

Fascism, aviation and mythical modernity (2015)

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Flying and the pilot were significant metaphors of fascism's mythical modernity. Fernando Esposito traces the changing meanings of these highly charged symbols from the 1909 air show in Brescia, to the sky above the trenches of the First World War to the violent ideological clashes of the interwar period. The book analyzes a multitude of speakers in the aviation discourse ranging from Aby Warburg and Gabriele D'Annunzio, over the Futurists and Ernst Jnger to the Fascists proper. Esposito shows how the flyer came to symbolize not only New Man and the new eternal time the Fascists were striving for but also the conflicts underlying modernity itself. (Publisher)

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Authors & Contributors
Saraiva, Tiago
George, Joppan
Martina Caruso
Sarah Teasley
Ebbo Schröder
Thompson, Emily
Concepts
National Socialism
Fascism
Technology and politics
Science and politics
Modernity
World War II
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
21st century
19th century
Places
Germany
Italy
Spain
Andes
Lisbon (Portugal)
South America
Institutions
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Instituten
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften
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