Author: WENDY STALLARD FLORY
Title: The American Ezra Pound
Description: Yale University Press, 1989. Linnen band met stofomslag. Pp: 246. A psychological study, analyzing the links between Pound's economic theories, his admiration for Mussolini, his pro-fascist and antisemitic propaganda broadcasts from Italy during the war, and his insanity. Ch. 4 (pp. 131-155), "The Antisemitism of the Rome Broadcasts", suggests that prejudice is present to some degree in all human beings and overcoming it involves a moral decision. The very violence of Pound's antisemitic effusions shows that he underwent a moral struggle, in contrast to the unemotional Eichmann who delegated the moral decision to others. Pound accused Churchill and Roosevelt of having started the war in the service of a world conspiracy of Jewish bankers, but he also describes the poorer class of Jews as victims of the bankers. Mentions that Pound was a eugenicist, but not a racist in the Nazi sense. The "Afterword" (pp. 221-228) discusses renewed interest in the psychology of collaboration with Nazism, which was soft-pedalled immediately after the war. Asserts that it is necessary to reemphasize the importance of individual moral choice. ISBN: 9780300042368. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780300042368
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Title: The American Ezra Pound
Description: Yale University Press, 1989. Linnen band met stofomslag. Pp: 246. A psychological study, analyzing the links between Pound's economic theories, his admiration for Mussolini, his pro-fascist and antisemitic propaganda broadcasts from Italy during the war, and his insanity. Ch. 4 (pp. 131-155), "The Antisemitism of the Rome Broadcasts", suggests that prejudice is present to some degree in all human beings and overcoming it involves a moral decision. The very violence of Pound's antisemitic effusions shows that he underwent a moral struggle, in contrast to the unemotional Eichmann who delegated the moral decision to others. Pound accused Churchill and Roosevelt of having started the war in the service of a world conspiracy of Jewish bankers, but he also describes the poorer class of Jews as victims of the bankers. Mentions that Pound was a eugenicist, but not a racist in the Nazi sense. The "Afterword" (pp. 221-228) discusses renewed interest in the psychology of collaboration with Nazism, which was soft-pedalled immediately after the war. Asserts that it is necessary to reemphasize the importance of individual moral choice. ISBN: 9780300042368. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780300042368
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- Book number: 2109569
- Book number: 2109569
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