Did somebody say totalitarianism? : five interventions in the (mis)use of a notion
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Did somebody say totalitarianism? : five interventions in the (mis)use of a notion
（Wo es war）
Verso, 2002
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Did somebody say totalitarianism? : five misuse of a notion
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"Paperback edition first published by Verso 2002"--T.p. verso
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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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