Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism?: 5 Interventions in the (Mis)Use of a Notion: Five Interventions in the (Mis)Use of a Notion (The Essential Zizek) - Softcover

Zizek, Slavoj

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844677133 ISBN 13: 9781844677139

Verlag: Verso Books, 2011

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Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism?: 5 Interventions In The (Mis)Use Of A Notion (The Essential Zizek) by Slavoj Zizek, 9781844677139, Verso, 2011, Paperback

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Críticas

"The ferociously productive Slovenian philosopher now takes up one of those heavy, predictable, unpromising topics--totalitarianism--and manages to produce a whirling carnival of political critique, cultural interpretations, and ornery bombast."--New Political Science "As an alternative to the current post-modernist cult of cynicism and retreat into islands of privacy and nihilism ... the five essays making up Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism? insist on the social link and offer the visionary strength for resistance against all forms of totalized explanations."--World Literature Today "This attempt to rethink the conditions of radical political action is one of a number of signs that, after the doldrums of the 1980s and 1990s, left-wing thought is beginning to revive. It will be fascinating to follow where the flood of eloquence and imagination next sweeps Slavoj i ek."--Times Literary Supplement " i ek is an entertaining writer who would command attention if he were just describing how to mix cement. He wastes no time in tilting at the taken-for-granted ... i ek wants to find the cracks in the notion of totalitarianism and fill them with dynamite."--Times Higher Education Supplement

Reseña del editor

Totalitarianism has always had a precise strategic function: to guarantee the liberal democratic hegemony by dismissing the Leftist critique of liberal democracy as the two-faced twin of Right-wing dictatorships. Instead of providing yet another systematic exposition of the history of this notion, Zizek looks at totalitarianism in a way that Wittgenstein would approve of - finding it a cobweb of family resemblances. He reveals the consensus view of totalitarianism, in which it is invariably defined in terms of four things: the holocaust as the ultimate, diabolical evil; the Stalinist gulag as the alleged truth of the socialist revolutionary project; the recent wave of ethnic and religious fundamentalisms to be fought through multiculturalist tolerance; and the deconstructionist idea that the ultimate root of totalitarianism is the ontological closure of thought. Zizek concludes that the devil lies not so much in the detail but in what enables the very designation totalitarian: the liberal-democratic consensus itself.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Verso Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1844677133
• ISBN 13: 9781844677139
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288