To Fight Against This Age, Rob Riemen
To Fight Against This Age, Rob Riemen
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To Fight Against This Age
On Fascism and Humanism

Author: Rob Riemen

Narrator: Liam Gerrard

Unabridged: 3 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/23/2018


Synopsis

In "The Eternal Return of Fascism," Rob Riemen explores the theoretical weakness of fascism, which depends on a politics of resentment, the incitement of anger and fear, xenophobia, the need for scapegoats, and its hatred of the life of the mind. He draws on history and philosophy as well as the essays and novels of Thomas Mann and Albert Camus to explain the global resurgence of fascism, often disguised by its false promises of ushering in freedom and greatness.

Riemen's own response to what he sees as the spiritual crisis of our age is articulated in "The Return of Europa," a moving story about the meaning of European humanism with its universal values of truth, beauty, justice, and love for life?values that are the origin and basis of a democratic civilization.

To Fight Against This Age is as timely as it is timeless, to be read by those who want to understand and change the world in which they live.

About Rob Riemen

Rob Riemen, an essayist and cultural philosopher, is founder of the Nexus Institute, an international center devoted to intellectual reflection and to inspiring Western cultural and philosophical debate. He lives in the Netherlands.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jon

I can not think of a more timely book than this: the resurgence of fascism and the future of Europe. There are those who think that it will be another man with a funny moustache who will be the future avatar of this philosophical position; and that will be to the benefit of many embryotic movements......more

Goodreads review by Xenia

Ενα μικρο βοηθημα για να καταλαβουμε τι ειναι αυτο που μας χτυπαει την πορτα....ΥΓ Να το διαβασεις και να το αγορασεις!......more

Goodreads review by Conor

Well this one was kind of strange. I'm sympathetic to its main argument--that qualitative values like virtue and education and civility need to claw back some of the gains that quantitative values such as wealth and success and technological innovation have made in the post-WWII era--but I'm not sur......more

Goodreads review by Ryan

I found Rieman’s analysis convincing but his prescriptions a bit vague, nostalgic, and (he’d hate this) elitist. I kept wishing he would use examples or more detailed illustrations of what recapturing the “soul” or “spiritual values” means.......more