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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. | + | [[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 new book addresses totalitarianism in a Wittgensteinian way, as a cobweb of family resemblances. In so doing it reveals the prevalence of the consensus-view of totalitarianism, in which it is invariably defined by one of the following four things: the holocaust as the ultimate, diabolical evil; the Stalinist gulag as the alleged truth of the Socialist revolutionary project; the recent wave of ethnic and religious fundamentalisms to be fought through multiculturalist tolerance; or the deconstructionist idea that the ultimate root of totalitarianism is the ontological closure of thought, the denial of the irreducible gap in human existence. | + | Instead of providing yet [[another]] systematic exposition of the [[history]] of this notion, [[Zizek]] ’s new book addresses totalitarianism in a Wittgensteinian way, as a cobweb of [[family]] resemblances. In so doing it reveals the prevalence of the consensus-view of totalitarianism, in which it is invariably defined by one of the following four things: the [[holocaust]] as the ultimate, diabolical [[evil]]; the Stalinist [[gulag]] as the alleged [[truth]] of the Socialist revolutionary [[project]]; the [[recent]] wave of ethnic and [[religious]] fundamentalisms to be fought through multiculturalist [[tolerance]]; or the deconstructionist [[idea]] that the ultimate root of totalitarianism is the [[ontological]] closure of [[thought]], the [[denial]] of the irreducible gap in [[human]] [[existence]]. |
Zizek 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. | Zizek 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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