New Fascism: Contagion, Community, Myth - Couverture souple

Lawtoo, Nidesh

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1611863295 ISBN 13 : 9781611863291

Editeur : Michigan State University Press, 2019

Synopsis

Fascism tends to be relegated to a dark chapter of European history, but what if new forms of fascism are currently returning to the forefront of the political scene? In this book, Nidesh Lawtoo furthers his previous diagnostic of crowd behavior, identification, and mimetic contagion to account for the growing shadow cast by authoritarian leaders who rely on new media to take possession of the digital age. Donald Trump is considered here as a case study to illustrate Nietzsche’s untimely claim that, one day, “ ‘actors,’ all kinds of actors, will be the real masters.” In the process, Lawtoo joins forces with a genealogy of mimetic theorists—from Plato to Girard, through Nietzsche, Tarde, Le Bon, Freud, Bataille, Lacoue-Labarthe, and Nancy, among others—to show that (new) fascism may not be fully “new,” let alone original; yet it effectively reloads the old problematics of mimesis via new media that have the disquieting power to turn politics itself into a fiction.

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À propos de l'auteur

Nidesh Lawtoo is professor of Modern/Contemporary European Literature and Culture at Leiden University, Netherlands. He previously led the ERC project Homo Mimeticus: Theory and Criticism, and he is the author of several books inaugurating a new theory of mimesis at the intersection of philosophy, literature, and politics, including The Phantom of the Ego (2013), Conrad's Shadow (2016), (New)Fascism (2019), and Violence and the Oedipal Unconscious (2023).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Michigan State University Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1611863295
• ISBN 13: 9781611863291
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 359
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible