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Roger Griffin
Modernism and Fascism: The Sense of a Beginning under Mussolini and Hitler
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
Roger Griffin, Professor in Modern History at Oxford Brookes University, first introduced the idea of “Palingenesis” to the field of fascist studies over 15 years ago, making him immediately a leading figure in his chosen vocation. Read more …
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990) is the greatest work of art and literary criticism since the days of Matthew Arnold and Walter Pater. It is a work of extraordinary ambition, the most sweeping and synoptic book on Western civilization since Spengler’s Decline of the West. 
Charles Krafft:
The Enduring Power of Artists & Objects
Within aesthetics, one of my longstanding interests is the possibility that the sheer psychophysics of certain art forms, forms of enormous importance in the Western tradition, have been largely explored; at any rate, that portion with enduring appeal to the most highly developed human brains. When I first began thinking along these lines, I had quite a sense of loss, because the idea grew from consideration of the art that has touched me most deeply since infancy, dreamily listening to my mother play; Read more …