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With an apparently contradictory and characteristically makeshift term, 'Liberal Fascisms', Slavoj Zizek captures the paradoxical nature of political populism.

To see this phenomenon as purely liberal and dictatorially fascistic is to expose liberalism and fascism as two sides of the same coin. The concept offers a glimpse into the murky landscape of half-lies and double-truths that Zizek enters in this latest collection of urgent essays.

From the economy and politics to ideology, these short texts work through the different faces of liberal fascism, structured around a trio of the universal, the particular, and the single: our global predicament; Europe and the Middle East; Trump's America. Peeling back the inadequate labels we hasten to pin on the phenomena that terrify us - like 'post-truth'- to peer at the seeping wounds beneath them, these writings reveal the uneasy mixture of lies and truths that have always been stacked, matryoshka like, inside of one another.

With no cure in hand, but a refusal to dispense with thought that is muddled and murky, the essays are timely and resolute. From the so-called "death of truth" opens up the possibility for a new authentic truth. or for an even worse big Lie. And we must ask - what forms of justice are made possible by this disorder?

Liberal Fascisms is also available in audiobook format from audiobook retailers.

With an apparently contradictory and characteristically makeshift term, 'Liberal Fascisms', Slavoj Zizek captures the paradoxical nature of political populism.

To see this phenomenon as purely liberal and dictatorially fascistic is to expose liberalism and fascism as two sides of the same coin. The concept offers a glimpse into the murky landscape of half-lies and double-truths that Zizek enters in this latest collection of urgent essays.

From the economy and politics to ideology, these short texts work through the different faces of liberal fascism, structured around a trio of the universal, the particular, and the single: our global predicament; Europe and the Middle East; Trump's America. Peeling back the inadequate labels we hasten to pin on the phenomena that terrify us - like 'post-truth'- to peer at the seeping wounds beneath them, these writings reveal the uneasy mixture of lies and truths that have always been stacked, matryoshka like, inside of one another.

With no cure in hand, but a refusal to dispense with thought that is muddled and murky, the essays are timely and resolute. From the so-called "death of truth" opens up the possibility for a new authentic truth. or for an even worse big Lie. And we must ask - what forms of justice are made possible by this disorder?

Liberal Fascisms is also available in audiobook format from audiobook retailers.

Über den Autor
Slavoj Zizekis a Hegelian philosopher, a Lacanian psychoanalyst, and a Communist. He is Visiting Professor at the New York University, USA, and Senior Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: From the Standpoint of Eternity

Part One: The Global Mess We're In
Altona, Los Angeles: From the Nearby to the Neighbour
The Ambivalence of De-Commodification
Decolonization and the Public Use of Reason
Let It Rot...
Re-staging the Event

Part Two: Local Turbulences
Dark Humour in the Reign of Daddy Cool
Next Year in Gaza!
Sumud: Remember This Word
Peace for Our Time
The Story of Three Faces

Part Three: The Black Hole of our World
Let's Pray Trump Survives
Grab 'em by the Pussy
Why Evil Men Need Noble Spirits
Donald Trump as a Gramscian
Mamdani's Wager

Conclusion: Abandon All Hope, You Who Enter Radical Politics

Notes
Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2026
Genre: Importe, Philosophie
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Zizek's Essays
ISBN-13: 9781350573161
ISBN-10: 1350573167
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Zizek, Slavoj
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Academic
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Bloomsbury Publishing Ireland Limited, 29 Earlsfort Terrace, ?-D02 AY28 Dublin, productsafety@bloomsbury.com
Maße: 203 x 135 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Slavoj Zizek
Erscheinungsdatum: 22.04.2026
Gewicht: 0,186 kg
Artikel-ID: 135037380

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