Question
In an essay that discusses a cult of “action for action’s sake,” the author recalls receiving a childhood award for a speech about this person before being disappointed by this person’s own speech. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this person opposed by a compatriot who wrote The Essence of Aesthetic. “Fundamental Ideas,” the first section of an essay by this person, was ghostwritten by the theorizer of “actual idealism.”
ANSWER: Benito Mussolini (The two philosophers mentioned are Benedetto Croce and Giovanni Gentile.)
[10e] Umberto Eco criticized Mussolini’s supporters in an essay titled for an “Ur” form of this political ideology, whose name Mussolini coined in reference to a Roman symbol of an axe in a bundle of sticks.
ANSWER: fascism [or fascismo; accept fascist; accept “Ur-Fascism”]
[10m] Mussolini persecuted the author of this text that includes the essay “Americanism and Fordism.” This text proposes that the ruling class undertakes a “passive revolution” for its preservation and wields cultural hegemony.
ANSWER: Prison Notebooks [or Quaderni del carcere] (by Antonio Gramsci)
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Summary
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 60% | 20% |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 7 | 20.00 | 100% | 71% | 29% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 15.00 | 100% | 33% | 17% |
Data
| UNC B | Virginia A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Virginia Tech A | Wake Forest | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |