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Žižek, S. (2001) Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism? Five Essays in the
(Mis)Use of a Notion, London and New York: Verso.
This timely and combative book argues that totalitarianism is an
ideological notion which has been used by the liberal democratic
consensus to impugn the political left's critique of that consensus with
the atrocities of the political right, thereby disabling effective political
thought. Žižek examines five aspects of totalitarianism here and
concludes that the problem with the notion is the very thing that makes
such a designation possible in the first place - the liberal democratic
consensus (among whose members he includes just about everybody,
damning them as a bunch of 'conformist scoundrels'). Like many of
his recent books, this monograph is more explicitly political in its
content, ending as it does with the refrain for increased socialization
in some form or another'.
[[Category:Books]]
[[Category:Žižek]]
[[Category:Psychoanalysis]]
Žižek, S. (2001) Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism? Five Essays in the
(Mis)Use of a Notion, London and New York: Verso.
This timely and combative book argues that totalitarianism is an
ideological notion which has been used by the liberal democratic
consensus to impugn the political left's critique of that consensus with
the atrocities of the political right, thereby disabling effective political
thought. Žižek examines five aspects of totalitarianism here and
concludes that the problem with the notion is the very thing that makes
such a designation possible in the first place - the liberal democratic
consensus (among whose members he includes just about everybody,
damning them as a bunch of 'conformist scoundrels'). Like many of
his recent books, this monograph is more explicitly political in its
content, ending as it does with the refrain for increased socialization
in some form or another'.
