Perversions of Fascism

ISBN-13: 9780367325916 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 384 str.

Antonios Vadolas

Opis

Contemporary versions of evil demonise modern "fascists", "totalitarian threats", and "Hitlers". As if not obscure enough, fascist evil has been equivocally linked with perversion. This book reveals that both fascism and perversion implicate the non-symbolisable kernel in politics, which becomes the source of their mystification. It argues that

Spis treści

Preface -- Fascism and Perversion -- Introduction -- 1930s–1940s: The Frankfurt School and the Freudian left -- 1940s–1970s: The authoritarian and evil profile of fascism -- 1970s–1980s: Neo-Freudian perspectives -- 1990s: The surfeit of fascist jouissance -- Part I: Conclusion -- Discourse -- Introduction: The domination of the fascist and the Sadean master -- Power and mastery through the Lacanian prism -- The Lacanian discourse -- Three masters, three systems of domination -- Part II: Conclusion -- Ethics -- Introduction -- Sade with Kant and Eichmann -- Ethics and guilt -- From imaginary to democratic ethics -- Part III: Conclusion -- Politics -- Introduction: Politics and the embodiment of jouissance -- Beyond the fascist Utopia -- Exfra-ordinary anxiety -- Negating disavowal -- Part IV: Conclusion -- Conclusion: Love the object of your anxiety

O autorze

Vadolas, Antonios