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search Book cover of Der Faschismus in seiner Epoche.  Fascism
in Its Epoch, also known in English as The Three Faces of
Fascism (German: Der Faschismus in seiner Epoche), is a book
published in 1963 by historian and philosopher Ernst Nolte. It
is widely regarded as his magnum opus and a seminal work on the
history of fascism.   The book, which was translated into
English in 1965 as The Three Faces Of Fascism, argues that
fascism arose as a form of resistance to and a reaction against
modernity. Nolte's basic hypothesis and methodology were deeply
rooted in the German "philosophy of history" tradition, a form
of intellectual history which seeks to discover the
"metapolitical dimension" of history.[1]:47 The "metapolitical
dimension" is considered to be the history of grand ideas
functioning as profound spiritual powers, which infuse all
levels of society with their force.[1]:47 In Nolte'