Roger Griffin

Roger Griffin is a British academic at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, England whose theory on fascism determines that it is palingenetic ultra-nationalism with concepts and acts of national rebirth being the its defining feature.

He has translated works by Norberto Bobbio and Ferruccio Rossi-Landi.

Works

• The Nature of Fascism (St. Martin's Press, 1991 ISBN 0312071329, Routledge, 1993, ISBN 0415096618)
• Fascism (Oxford Readers) Oxford University Press, 1995, ISBN 0192892495)
• Fascism: Critical Concepts in Political Science edited with Matthew Feldman (Routledge, 2004, ISBN 0415290155)
• International Fascism: Theories, Causes and the New Consensus (view table of contents, Edward Arnold, 1998, ISBN 0340706147)
• Fascism, Totalitarianism, and Political Religion Routledge, 2006, ISBN 0415347939)

External links

• Samples of writings by Roger Griffin. To see fuller publications list see his publications webpage (from which some articles are downloadable)at: http://ah.brookes.ac.uk/history/staff/griffin/publications.html

• • Fascism and Religion
  • The palingenetic core of generic fascist ideology
  • Revolution from the Right: Fascism
  • Notes towards the definition of fascist culture: the prospects for synergy between Marxist and liberal heuristics
  • How fascist was Mussolini?
  • The Sacred Synthesis: The Ideological Cohesion of Fascist Cultural Policy
  • Was Nazism fascist?
  • Nazism and generic fascism
  • "Party Time": The Temporal Revolution of the Third Reich
  • Hooked Crosses and Forked Paths: The Fascist Dynamics of the Third Reich
  • Nazi Art: Romantic Twilight or Post-modernist Dawn?
  • Totalitarian Art and the Nemesis of Modernity
  • Solving the fascist conundrum (review article)

For outline of his research interests see http://ah.brookes.ac.uk/history/staff/griffin/index.html