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Teme ale Discursului Extremei-Drepte in Publicistica Franceza Interbelica
Themes of the Extreme-Right Discourse in the French Interwar Journalistic Writings

Author(s): Cristian Sandache
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Editura Lumen, Asociatia Lumen
Keywords: Extreme-Right; France; Europe; anti-Semitism; anti-communism

Summary/Abstract: The paper hightlights the common themes in the interwar journalistic writings discourse of the French Extreme-Right representatives, characters of great intellectual mobility, but dominated by ethnic-spiritual cliches and prejudices, assumed by them in a deliberate manner. A very complex and also controversial phenomenon, the ideological radicalism of right-wing is fought against with equal energy by the communist doctrine and by the liberal democratic model which had interpreted as threats to the identity of nations. Anti-Semitism is integrated part of this discourse, justified by the evil role atributed to Jewish people in orchestrating a hidden universal conspiracy, meant to confer it an absolute control over the christian civilization. Beyond these stylistics there was an amazing collective blindness that would lead in the years of World War II to Holocaust and terror against the Jewish people.

  • Issue Year: I/2012
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 67-78
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Romanian