Professor Matthew Feldman is a specialist on fascist ideology and the far-right in Europe and the USA. He is the author or editor of more than 20 books, including three book-length studies, and more than 40 articles or academic book chapters. Published volumes include Clerical Fascism in Interwar Europe (Routledge, 2008), A Fascist Century (Palgrave, 2008), and, with Roger Griffin, the five-volume collection Fascism: Critical Concepts (Routledge 2003). More recent volumes include Doublespeak: The Rhetoric of the Far-Right since 1945 (with Paul Jackson, 2014), The ‘New Man’ in Radical Right Ideology and Practice, 1919–1945 (with Jorge Dagnino and Paul Stocker, 2017), as well as the journal specials Far-right Populism and Lone Wolf Terrorism in Contemporary Europe (Democracy and Security, 2013) and The Ideologies and Ideologues of the Radical Right (Patterns of Prejudice, 2016). His most recent monograph, Ezra Pound’s Fascist Propaganda, 1935-1945, appeared with Palgrave in 2013, and his first collection of essays, Falsifying Beckett, appeared in 2015 with ibidem Press.

"We all know Kafka’s letter about the effect books should exert: 'If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for?' This question underpins Matthew Feldman’s ethical rigor. With a slap in the face or a blow to the head, Politics, Ideology, and Faith reminds us of the need to reopen old and new archives so as to assess key texts of modernism and recent acts of terrorism. One needs to examine to what degree they have been tainted by fascism, denial, totalitarianism, and intolerance. There is a lot to learn from these courageous explorations of the darker sides of our modern and contemporary culture." — Professor Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania, American Academy of the Arts and Sciences