Roger Griffin

While numerous people seem to be impressed with this book, I am somewhat less so. Griffin's basic point regarding fascism is that unless you have the conceit that a revolution of mobilization will rekindle the mythic image of the nation in question you really don't have fascism. How this ties into modernity is the conceit that radical measures are needed to induce a cultural revolution, plus shared foundational notions between regarding concepts of occult other knowledge, largely lifted from Theosophy, and some Nietzschean notions of form givers who transcend good and evil; or at least conventionality. That is essentially what the book boils down to, with the problem being that Griffin is also engaged in an epistemological argument with his discipline and one enters that zone where you're not sure whether the concepts being dealt with are legitimately difficult, or whether Griffin is just being prolix.… (mer)