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Did Someone Say Totalitarianism?: Four Interventions in the (Mis)Use of a Notion (Wo Es War)

Did Someone Say Totalitarianism?: Four Interventions in the (Mis)Use of a Notion (Wo Es War)

by SlavojZizek (Author)

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    Paperback 2002

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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 but in what enables the very designation totalitarian, the liberal-democratic consensus itself.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 288
 Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 27 Aug 2002
ISBN 10: 1859844251
ISBN 13: 9781859844250

Media Reviews
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 sweeps Slavoj Zizek. - Times Literary Supplement Zizek is an entertaining writer who would command attention if he were just describing how to mix cement. He wastes no time in tilting the taken-for-granted... Zizek wants to find the cracks I the notion of totalitarianism and fill them with dynamite. - Times Higher Educational Supplement The Ferociously productive Slovenian philosopher now takes up one of those heavy, predictable, uncompromising 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 the 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
Author Bio
Slavoj Zizek is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Social Studies, Ljubljana. His books include The Sublime Object of Ideology, Everything You Always Wanted to know about Lacan (but were afraid to ask Hitchcock), The Plague of Fantasies, The Ticklish Subject and The Fragile Absolute, all published by Verso.