Introduction - The Politics of Revolutionary Aesthetics; Part One - Filippo Tomasso Marietti, Futurism & Fascism; Vladimir Mayakovsky, Cubo-Futurism & Bolshevism; Wyndham Lewis, Vorticism & the Hitler Cult.
Professor David Ohana teaches European history at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. He was a visiting fellow at The Sorbonne, Harvard, and Berkeley as well as the first academic director of the Forum for Mediterranean Cultures at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. His many books include: The Origins of Israeli Mythology (Cambridge, 2014), Israel and Its Mediterranean Identity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), Modernism and Zionism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), Political Theologies in the Holy Land: Israeli Messianism and its Critics (Routledge, 2009), and most recently, The Nihilist Order: The Intellectual Roots of Totalitarianism (SAP 2016).
"Ohana has convincingly shown that a complex cultural, ideological
and psychological syndrome, linking nihilism to totalitarianism,
represented a significant factor in the 'gathering storm' which
marked the early twentieth century." --Saul Friedl�nder, author,
The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews,
1939-1945
"A major contribution to the understanding of the 'condition
humain'." --Yehoshua Arieli, author, Individualism and Nationalism
in American Ideology
"A provocative and illuminating thesis on Totalitarianism."
--Isaiah Berlin
"A turning point in the research of European modernity."
--Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
"Ohana concludes his The Nihilist Order trilogy, consisting of The
Dawn of Political Nihilism, Homo Mythicus, and this work. Together,
they investigate the connections between nihilism and
totalitarianism in the historical development of the European
radical right and radical left. Here, he focuses on aesthetic
aspects through an analysis of the futurist movements in Italy,
Russia, and Britain associated respectively with the figures of
Filippo Marinetti, Vladimir Mayakovsky, and Wyndham Lewis. In each,
he finds the intellectual, cultural, mythical, and political
elements of the 'futurist syndrome.' These elements include
'destruction of the past and contempt for history, glorification of
modern dynamism and political violence, a cult of the future and
innovation, and the creation of an ex nihilo myth.'" --Reference &
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