Zizek Slavoj - Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism? Five Interventions In The (Mis) Use Of A Notion - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: In some circles a nod towards totalitarianism is enough to dismiss any critique of the status quo. Such is the insidiousness of the neo - liberal ideology argues Slavoj i ek. Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism? turns a specious rhetorical strategy on its head to identify a network of family resemblances between totalitarianism and modern liberal democracy. i ek argues that totalitarianism 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; ethnic and religious fundamentalisms which are to be fought through multiculturalist tolerance; and the deconstructionist idea that the ultimate root of totalitarianism is the ontological closure of thought. i ek concludes that the devil lies not so much in the detail but in what enables the very designation totalitarian: the liberal - democratic consensus itself.
Title: Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism? Five Interventions In The (Mis) Use Of A Notion
Author(s): Zizek Slavoj
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781844677139
Pages: 288 Pages
Publication Date: 8/1/2011
Series: The Essential Zizek
Category: Political Structures: Totalitarianism & Dictatorship