Mussolini's intellectuals : fascist social and political thought / A. James Gregor.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter One: Some Issues in the Intellectual History of Fascism; Chapter Two: The Historic Background and Enrico Corradini; Chapter Three: Alfredo Rocco and the Elements of Fascist Doctrine; Chapter Four: Sergio Panunzio: From Revolutionary to National Syndicalism; Chapter Five: Idealism, Ugo Spirito, and the Outlines of Fascist Doctrine; Chapter Six: Ugo Spirito and the Rationale of the Corporative State; Chapter Seven: Sergio Panunzio and the Maturing of Fascist Doctrine; Chapter Eight: Camillo Pellizzi, Carlo Costamagna, and the Final Issues.

Fascism has traditionally been characterized as irrational and anti-intellectual, finding expression exclusively as a cluster of myths, emotions, instincts, and hatreds. This intellectual history of Italian Fascism--the product of four decades of work by one of the leading experts on the subject in the English-speaking world--provides an alternative account. A. James Gregor argues that Italian Fascism may have been a flawed system of belief, but it was neither more nor less irrational than other revolutionary ideologies of the twentieth century. Gregor makes this case by presenting for the fir.

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