Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism?: Five Interventions in the (MIS)Use of a Notion

by Slavoj Žižek

Book Overview

As debates over the Holocaust and Stalinism reappear in the wake of new examples of ethnic and religious fundamentalisms, controversial philosopher Slavoj Zizek examines our idea of totalitarianism in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1859844251
• ISBN13: 9781859844250
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 7.7"

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An intensely searching evaluation and analysis

Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism?: Five Interventions in the (Mis)use of a Notion is an intensely searching evaluation and analysis of precisely what totalitarianism is, and how the term has been misused -- particularly in twentieth century political science and philosophical discussions. Individual chapter sections address diverse, unusual, and controversial topics such as "The radical ambiguity of Stalinism"; "A plea for material creationism"; and "The Pope versus the Dalai Lama". Deviously written by Slavoj Zizek (Senior Researcher, Institute for Social Studies, Ljublijana) to unweave conundrums about the cross-purpose classification of totalitarian power and governance, Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism? is a complex, thought-provoking philosophical accounting and a highly recommended addition to academic Political Science and Philosophy Studies departmental reference collections and reading lists.