General Information

Uniform Title

Mythische Moderne.

Author/Creator

Esposito, Fernando, author.

Language

German.

Published

München : Oldenbourg Verlag, 2011.

Physical Description

480 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Series

Ordnungssysteme. Studien zur Ideengeschichte der Neuzeit Band 32

Contents/Summary

Summary

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 Jünger 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.

Subjects

Subject

Fascism > History.

Aeronautics, Military > Political aspects > Germany.

Aeronautics, Military > Political aspects > Italy.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Fernando Esposito.

Library Special Collection

The Roger Griffin ComFas Collection

ISBN

9783486598100

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	355.3/09/43 ESP		General Stacks	-

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