Performing the Body Politic : Sorelian Discourse in Periodicals of Italian Futurism and German Expressionism
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23 septembre 2016
- doi: 10.4000/books.pur.38431
- isbn: 9782753512948
- eisbn: 9782753547261
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Douglas Brent McBride, « Performing the Body Politic : Sorelian Discourse in Periodicals of Italian Futurism and German Expressionism », Presses universitaires de Rennes, ID : 10.4000/books.pur.38431
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The most striking constant in the political orientation of European modernism in the first decades of the twentieth century was its antagonism for parliament, the institution that embodied the democratic ideals of nineteenth-century liberalism. Italian Futurism and German Expressionism were especially vocal in their antipathy for parliamentary institutions in the half-decade before 1914, and this opposition to the liberal model of representative democracy has caused both movements to be conde...