College Courses 8 - It Can't Happen Here The Specter of Fascism in American Culture

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Dartmouth College

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09S: 10 Could America ever turn into a fascist dictatorship Politicians from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush have raised the specter of fascism as the very antithesis of American democratic politics and culture. Yet in the 1930s, a series of fascist organizations appeared in the United States. While the influence of these groups was never great, their existence speaks to larger fault lines and tensions in twentieth-century American society that this course will explore. We will read European and American texts in political and aesthetic philosophy with respect to fascism worldwide, and will place these texts in conjunction with literary writings of the 1930s and contemporary rewritings of 1930s American fascism. The literary, philosophical, political and cultural texts will be enhanced by topical films. Dist: INT; WCult: W. Will, Milich.

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3.00

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Lecture

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www.dartmouth.edu

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(603) 646-1110

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Quarter

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