Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism?: Four Interventions in the (Mis)Use of a Notion - Couverture souple

Zizek, Slavoj

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1859844251 ISBN 13 : 9781859844250

Editeur : Verso Books, 2002

Synopsis

Totalitarianism, as an ideological notion, has always had a precise strategic function: to guarantee the liberal-democratic hegemony by dismissing the Leftist critique of liberal democracy as the obverse, the twin, of the Rightist Fascist dictatorships. Instead of providing yet another systematic exposition of the history of this notion, Zizek's book addresses totalitarianism in a Wittgensteinian way, as a cobweb of family resemblances. He concludes that the devil lies not so much in the detail of what constitutes totalitarianism as in what enables the very designation totalitarian: the liberal-democratic consensus itself.

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Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, In Defense of Lost Causes, four volumes of the Essential Zizek, and many more.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Verso Books
• Date d'édition: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1859844251
• ISBN 13: 9781859844250
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 280
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible