Sure.
In the meantime, this is a description of the book :
"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 first
time a chronological account of the major intellectual figures of
Italian Fascism, tracing how the movement's ideas evolved in response
to social and political developments inside and outside of Italy.
Gregor follows Fascist thought from its beginnings in socialist
ideology about the time of the First World War--when Mussolini
himself was a leader of revolutionary socialism--through its
evolution into a separate body of thought and to its destruction in
the Second World War. Along the way, Gregor offers extended accounts
of some of Italian Fascism's major thinkers, including Sergio
Panunzio and Ugo Spirito, Alfredo Rocco (Mussolini's Minister of
Justice), and Julius Evola, a bizarre and sinister figure who has
inspired much contemporary "neofascism."
Gregor's account reveals the flaws and tensions that dogged Fascist
thought from the beginning, but shows that if we want to come to
grips with one of the most important political movements of the
twentieth century, we nevertheless need to understand that Fascism
had serious intellectual as well as visceral roots."
The first chapter can be read at
http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/chapters/s7870.html
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evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com, "savitar_devi"
<savitar_devi@y...> wrote:
>
> Has anyone come across A. J. Gregors' book `Mussolini's
> Intellectuals'?
>
> The portrayal of Evola is this book is quite rancid to say the
least…
> this is a quote from the preface, and follows in the actual book is
> considerably worse. To say that the author holds Evola in low
esteem
> would be a massive understatement.
>
> `Considerable space in the text is devoted to the eccentric
> and "suprarational" vagaries of Julius Evola. The reason is that
> there are some specialists who seem to think that Evola was
> a "major" Fascist intellectual, and that he provided the rationale
> for "Ur-fascism" – the belief system that animated Fascism and all
> forms of "neofascism" with which scholarship now occupies itself.
> The discussion provided below, devoted to the thought of Evola, is
> intended to serve as its counterargument. I consider the space well
> spent. Conceiving Evola's thought as "fascist" has led many
scholars
> astray in their efforts to understand what they imagine to be
> contemporary "neofascism". Moreover, Evola's notions do document
the
> impact of Nationalist Socialist thought on the coherence and
> fundamental rationality of Fascist doctrine.'
>
> x, preface.
>
> Gregor, A. J., Mussolini's Intellectuals: Fascist Social and
> Political Thought (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2005).
>
>
> If anyone is interested in hearing his diatribe on Evola I will
type
> out some of the more controversial extracts.
>