The Return of Totalitarianism: Ideology, Terror, and Total Control

By Žarko Paić

Book Overview

This book enters into a detailed discussion with many theorists of totalitarianism, and demands a re-evaluation of approaches that speak of mass manipulation of people and ideological control mechanisms. Zarko Paic shows that totalitarianism cannot be only a political-ideological problem, but rather a problem of the relationship between the technosphere, political power, and the narcissistic culture of the spectacle, which offers postmodern revisionism and forgetfulness of history as opposed to brave civic participation in the public sphere of acting together. He investigates the transformations the political and cultural processes linked to the notion of 'totalitarianism' undergo in the contemporary world, and the transformations (and differences) that this notion expresses today in comparison to what was realized by fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism in the 20th century.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031189442
• ISBN13: 9783031189449
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 225 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"