Summary
Enzo Traverso: Specters of Fascism
"Ritual mention of external threats to democracy - starting with Islamic terrorism - forgets a fundamental lesson in the history of fascism: democracy can be destroyed from within."
Italian-French historian who deals with totalitarianism and the Holocaust in his work and offers a comparative analysis of fascism as well as a weapon for overcoming the dangerous use of history. He graduated in contemporary history at the University of Genoa in 1982, and completed his academic career with a doctorate at the School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences in Paris in 1989. He worked at universities in Amsterdam and Paris, where he lived for 20 years, and is currently a professor of humanities at Cornell University in New York. They write mostly in French.
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