Subjects and Occasions: Articles, Comment Pieces, and Reviews on the Far Right and Other Matters

In this new collection, Matthew Feldman extends his examination of the far right in its various forms and guises, addressing matters of immediate public concern like Islamophobia and neo-Nazism, while also paying attention to the fascist past and its modulations in the present. If this marks a continuity with his previous collection of essays, Politics, Intellectuals, and Faith, the present volume nevertheless constitutes a departure by presenting a broader and more various spectrum of Feldman’s concerns and modes. The first part of the book includes articles which engage political, artistic, and religious subjects, including Ezra Pound, Thomas Merton, and Samuel Beckett. The second part is made up of ＂comment pieces＂, where similar matters are treated in reaction to various occasions, offering a more informal but equally engaged response to questions of live interest. The reviews that make up the third part present Feldman’s views of others’ work on the subjects that have been his lifelong concern.

The volume’s contributors are: Matthew Feldman, Karim Mamdani, Steven Matthews

Matthew Feldman (Author)
Described by the Press Association as ＂the leading expert on the radical right＂, Matthew Feldman is a writer, consultant, and Emeritus Professor in the Modern History of Ideas. Based in the UK, a longstanding feature of his work is public engagement and policy-based impact, including briefings for various governmental bodies, reports for leading NGOs, expert testimony in more than two dozen radical right trials, and more than 750 media interviews. He is the author or editor of more than 20 books, including five book-length studies and more than 40 peer-reviewed articles or academic book chapters. This is his third collection of essays with ibidem, following Falsifying Beckett (2015) and Politics, Intellectuals and Faith (2020). He is the Director of Academic Consulting Services, and is currently writing a global history of fascism for Yale University Press.

Karim Mamdani (Edited by)
Karim Mamdani is an independent scholar.