1st Edition

The Frankfurt School and the Challenge of Fascism An Intellectual and Philosophical Reconstruction

By Claudio Corradetti Copyright 2026
208 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Fascism is a well-defined historical phenomenon, but its political-ideological offshoots have extended into today's democracies. How should we understand the mimetic and dissimulating capacity of fascism? Starting from the analyses of the exponents of the first Frankfurt School in their rethinking of the Marxian relationship of structure and superstructure, this study considers how fascism may be... Read more

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Biography

Claudio Corradetti is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy. He has an extensive research interest in the tradition of Critical Theory, as well as in the philosophy of human rights, transitional justice and the tradition of Republicanism, particularly, Machiavelli and Kant. Some of his recent articles are: C.Corradetti,“Deconstructive Dynamism in Machiavelli's Prince”, Jus Cogens, 7(1), pp.35-53; C.Corradetti, “Was Kant a Cosmopolitan Racist?”, Kant Studien 15(4), 2024, pp. 454-471; C. Corradetti, “Machiavelli’s Pendulum: Political Action, Time and Constitutional Change”, Philosophy & Social Criticism, 50(10), pp. 1541-1563. His latest books are: C.Corradetti Relativism and Human Rights. A Theory of Pluralist Universalism, Springer, Dordrecht, 2nd ed., 2022; C.Corradetti, Kant, Global Politics and Cosmopolitan Law. The World Republic as a Regulative Idea of Reason, Routledge, London-New York, 2020. He coedited an anthology titled: Theorizing Transitional Justice, Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot UK, 2015.