Mark Neocleous: The Monstrous and the Dead: Burke, Marx, Fascism.(Book review)

From: Capital & Class | Date: September 22, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Mark Neocleous

The Monstrous and the Dead: Burke, Marx, Fascism

University of Wales Press, 2005, 152 pp.

ISBN 0-708-31904-1 (hbk) 45 [pounds sterling]

ISBN 0-708-31903-3 (pbk) 18 [pounds sterling]

Mark Neocleous is one of the most interesting and original thinkers around, and I took this slim (and, unfortunately, rather expensive) book to review because of his transgressive track record, and because of my current interest in Hitler's charismatic career. In addition, a book with such an apposite photomontage by John Heartfield (whom I visited in the sixties) ...

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