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The Return of Totalitarianism

Ideology, Terror, and Total Control

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Authors:
  1. Žarko Paić

    1. University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

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  • Written for those interested in contemporary political philosophy, sociology, and globalization studies

  • Presents a detailed discussion with many theorists of totalitarianism

  • Shows that totalitarianism cannot be only a political-ideological problem

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Žarko Paić
    Pages 1-7

  3. Totalitarianism Without Subject: The End of the Total State and the “Ideology” of the Corporatism

    • Žarko Paić
    Pages 9-38

  4. The Mystery of the New Beginning: Hannah Arendt and the Political in Modern Times

    • Žarko Paić
    Pages 39-66

  5. Metapolitics and Evil : Heidegger’s “Spiritual Nazism”

    • Žarko Paić
    Pages 67-103

  6. The Triumph of Political Religions: Identity Politics and the Twilight of Culture

    • Žarko Paić
    Pages 105-143

  7. Ideology, Terror, Control: Does Totalitarianism Have a Prospect for the Future?

    • Žarko Paić
    Pages 145-196

  8. Power, Mass, and Brutality: Putin’s War Machine

    • Žarko Paić
    Pages 197-218

  9. Conclusion

    • Žarko Paić
    Pages 219-222

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 223-225
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About this book

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. Žarko Paić 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.


Reviews

“With known forms of totalitarianism a thing of the past, the elusive concept of totalitarianism is nowadays seen mainly as an extreme possibility to which contemporary feeble democracies may succumb. In this perceptive and wide-ranging book, Žarko Paić proposes to reconsider the phenomenon of totalitarianism not as a ghastly apparition of history, but as a tangible reality increasingly emerging from new forms of governance, political and corporate, boosted by the visual and cultural regimes which eagerly put themselves to their service.” (Adam Chmielewski, Professor, University of Wrocław, Poland)

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Žarko Paić

About the author

Žarko Paić is a Professor at the University of Zagreb, where he teaches courses in Aesthetics and Media Theory. He publishes frequently in philosophy, social sciences and art theory. His publications include White Holes and the Visualization of the Body (2019), Neoliberalism, Oligarchy and the Politics of the Event (2020), and Art and the Technosphere (2022).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Return of Totalitarianism

  • Book Subtitle: Ideology, Terror, and Total Control

  • Authors: Žarko Paić

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18942-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-18941-8Published: 08 December 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-18944-9Published: 08 December 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-18942-5Published: 07 December 2022

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 225

  • Topics: Political Philosophy, Social Sciences, general, Political Science, Globalization

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