Lectures

Post-Fascism in Europe?

What is the extreme right today? What unites such movements as Úsvit in the Czech Republic, Marian Kotleba’s People’s Party in Slovakia, the Front national in France, and the UK Independence Party? Are we facing a return of classical fascism, or is this a new historical phenomenon?

Prominent Hungarian philosopher and social critic G. M. Tamás will react to these questions and at a round table with Czech philosopher Michael Hauser and host Joseph Grim Feinberg.

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castJaroslav Fiala, Lukáš Matoška, Gáspár Miklós Tamás, Joseph Grim Feinberg, Michal Hauser
cameraJan Vidlička
soundJan Vidlička
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categoryLectures
published19. 12. 2016
languageČesky / English
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Post-Fascism in Europe?
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